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"There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God the Creator, made known through Jesus Christ." (Pascal, quoted in: W. Bright, Jesus and the Intellectual, Campus Crusade for Christ International, Arrowhead Springs, San Bernardino, CA, 1968.)
Blaise Pascal (1623-62) said something closer to our phrase over a millennium later: “What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace?
14 lip 2018 · Whether it was physics that lent its tools to questions of a humanist tenor, or the latter that first shaped Pascal’s scientific outlook, I propose to examine the importance of Pascal’s experiments with the vacuum in light of his apologist efforts.
2 maj 2011 · Blaise Pascal’s observation about the indelible God-shaped hole or vacuum within each fallen human being is justly famous. However, the larger context is less well-known, and yet I find the entire passage in Pensees to be brilliant: “The sovereign good. Man without faith can know neither true good nor justice. All men seek happiness.
1 mar 2001 · In this essay I attempt to discern the sense of sentiment by closely studying its use, not definition, in Pascal's initial publication and in his responses to queries. After a brief history of earlier experiences with the vacuum, I examine Pascal's pamphlet of 1647 and responses to it.
21 sie 2007 · One of the most famous and most extensive notes in the Pensées (Fragment 397: II, 676–81) is the so-called ‘wager’ in favour of belief in God. Cole (1995, Chapter 15) argues that Pascal exhibited signs of manic depression and an almost infantile dependence on his family in his mature years.
Despite chronic ill health, Pascal made historic contributions to mathematics and to physical science, including both experimental and theoretical work on hydraulics, atmospheric pressure, and the existence and nature of the vacuum.
