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
The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.
Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.
The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.
The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.
It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps; the majesty of these sciences would itself be venerable enough.
No animal admires another animal.
Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.
The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.
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.