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 humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of Nature; and from the tiny cell where he lodges, to wit the Universe, weigh at their true worth earth, kingdoms, towns, himself. What is a man face to face with infinity?
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed.
Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.
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