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 of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
Imagination decides everything.
Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.
All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.
Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe they are sinners, the sinners who believe they are righteous.