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
Il est non seulement impossible, mais inutile de conna|"tre Dieu sans Je sus-Christ. It is not only impossible, but also useless to recognize God without Jesus.
Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.
To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.