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
Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference...
Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.
The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.
Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.
Men blaspheme what they do not know.
Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.
What amazes me the most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.
Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will say. But I have no concern for mathematics; he would take me for a proposition. "That one is a good soldier." He would take me for a besieged town. I need, that is to say, a decent man who can accommodate himself to all my desires in a general sort of way.
Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.
Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it
The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.
If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God
If ignorance were bliss, he'd be a blister