Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascalwas a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalising the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote in defence of the scientific method...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth19 June 1623
CityClermont-Ferrand, France
CountryFrance
The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.
A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.
Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.
Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it
If we would say that man is too insignificant to deserve communion with God, we must indeed be very great to judge of it.
Man is but a reed, the most weak in nature, but he is a thinking reed
Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives
If all persons knew what they said of each other there would not be four friends in the world
Sleep, you say, is the image of death; for my part I say that it is rather the image of life.
The most powerful cause of error is the war existing between the senses and reason
Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.
Love has its reasons that Reason knows not