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
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
Thus our first interest and our first duty is to enlighten ourselves on this subject, whereon depends all our conduct. Therefore among those who do not believe, I make a vast difference between those who strive with all their power to inform themselv
Thus we never live, but we hope to live; and always disposing ourselves to be happy, it is inevitable that we never become so.
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.]
The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.