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
Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.
All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.
There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.
Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.
The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.
Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]
The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man ...
The property of power is to protect.