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
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
Continuous eloquence wearies.
When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.
Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
The gospel to me is simply irresistible.
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.
I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.
To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.