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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." Some have pointed this out and taken issue with it: Incorrect Pascal Quotes.
7 paź 2024 · “There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God the Creator, made know through Jesus Christ.” ― Pascal
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.
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.
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.
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.
21 lut 2008 · The most famous quote from Pascal is one that he apparently never said. It has variations, but goes something like this, with the key words being “God-shaped vacuum”: “There is within every man a God-shaped vacuum, an emptiness that only He can fill.”
