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
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
This religion taught to her children what men have only been able to discover by their greatest knowledge.
What is man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, all in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything
Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
The property of power is to protect.
There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man ...
If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]