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
The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.
Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.
When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who are rushing on, by acting as a fixed point.
Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.
Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.
By thought I embrace the universe.
Custom determines what is agreeable.
All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.
Our natures lie in motion, without which we die.
Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.
Eloquence is the painting of thought ...
Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.