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
Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.
Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.
The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
It is much better to know something about everything than to know everything about one thing.
There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the diverse lovable parts of that which it loves.
All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.