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 weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.