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
Imagination decides everything.
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.