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
Opinion is the queen of the world.
Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.
Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.
Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts.
Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.
That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.
There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs.
Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.
A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.
The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.
However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.