Blaise Pascal:

Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently one wishes to know only to talk.

— Blaise Pascal Early Modern

Pascal's Wager, mathematician

Pensées

1670 (posthumous)

Verification

Unverifiable

Found in 1 providers: grok

Cross Reference

1 source

"The greatest evil is war."

"All our dignity consists in thought."

"The greater the mind, the more the passions."

"Custom is the principal source of persuasion."

"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing."