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
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.
All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.
Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.
It is much better to know something about everything than to know everything about one thing.
There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the diverse lovable parts of that which it loves.
There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.
Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.