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
Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.
If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.
Which is the more believable of the two, Moses or China?
That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.
You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives
There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.
It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.
Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.
Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.
Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.