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
Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.
Console-toi, tu ne me chercherais pas si tu ne m'avais trouve . Comfort yourself.You would not seek me if you had not found me.
If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
Continuity in everything is unpleasant.
All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.
Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.
When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.
All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have strange defects to be contemptible. But it has such, so that nothing is more ridiculous. How great it is in its nature! How vile it is in its defects! But what is this thought? How foolish it is!
All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised?
Admiration spoils all from infancy.
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances.
Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.