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
Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.
Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.
The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.
The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of justice.
It is dangerous to tell the people that the laws are unjust; for they obey them only because they think them just. Therefore it isnecessary to tell them at the same time that they must obey them because they are laws, just as they must obey superiors, not because they are just, but because they are superiors. In this way all sedition is prevented.
Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is.
The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.
Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?