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
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.
There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the diverse lovable parts of that which it loves.
It is much better to know something about everything than to know everything about one thing.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.
Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.