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
Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]
The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man ...
The property of power is to protect.
Il est non seulement impossible, mais inutile de conna|"tre Dieu sans Je sus-Christ. It is not only impossible, but also useless to recognize God without Jesus.
Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.