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
He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.
To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.
Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.
Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.
What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.
Imagination decides everything.
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.