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
How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and his faith was in vain, he has lost nothing...If, however, there is a God and a heaven and a hell. then he has gained heaven and his skeptical friends have lost everything...
Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.
When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theater. It is a representation of the passions so natural and so delicate that it excites them and gives birth to them in our hearts, and, above all, to that of love.
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.