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
Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied.
Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
Little things console us because little things afflict us.
A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us.
Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.
Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!
The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.
And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.
If all persons knew what they said of each other there would not be four friends in the world
Love has its reasons that Reason knows not