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
All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
Kind words produce their images on men's souls.
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.
If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.
Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.
Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.