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 captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.
Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.
Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave
Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force.
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.
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.
However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.