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
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.
We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.
Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists
Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.
Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.
Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
The war existing between the senses and reason.
It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.
Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.
Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference...
Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real.
Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.