"Pascal contrasts the objects of mathematics with other objects that are completely different, which he does not group under a common name, but merely enumerates and describes, although it is easy to recognise what he might have called, if he had had the language of his time, things of an aesthetic and moral nature; and at the same time he characterises with precise features the faculties of the mind to which these two kinds of objects respectively belong. No one else, in fact, had a clearer awareness of the difference between the two orders of things and faculties, whose contrast corresponds to that of matter and spirit; no one else had such a correct and vivid sense of the special nature of the two orders, and knew their consequences so well. (La filosofia di Pascal, p. 144)"
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FĂ©lix Ravaisson, Saggi filosofici, preface and translation by Adriano Tilgher, "Tiber" Arti grafiche, Roma, 1917
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Blaise Pascal
1623 – 1662
französischer Mathematiker, Physiker und Religionsphilosoph
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