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
Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.
Eloquence is the painting of thought ...
Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.
Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live not a moment exempt from its influence.
Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.
Look for the truth, it wants to be found....
Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.
Symmetry is what we see at a glance.
We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.
A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.
When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.
All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.