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
There are three means of believing--by inspiration, by reason, and by custom. Christianity, which is the only rational institution, does yet admit none for its sons who do not believe by inspiration. Nor does it injure reason or custom, or debar them of their proper force; on the contrary, it directs us to open our minds by the proofs of the former, and to confirm our minds by the authority of the latter.
Little things console us because little things afflict us.
What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy
The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.
All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.
Not to be mad is another form of madness
Imagination decides everything.
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
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.
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
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.
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.