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
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.
All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.
Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.