Blaise Pascal, a brilliant intellectual and scientist d Aug 19 1662. After undergoing a profound conversion he turned his genius to the defense of Christianity, convinced that faith gave access to a dimension of truth beyond the reach of reason.
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"We never keep to the present. ... the future alone is our end. This means we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning to be happy it is inevitable that we should never be so."