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
Let each of us examine his thoughts
they do not know that they seek only the chase and not the quarry.
Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
Opinion is the queen of the world.
The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.
The only shame is to have none.
And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?
The stream is always purer at its source.
We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.
How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.
Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.
Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.
Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.