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
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.
Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere
Our natures lie in motion, without which we die.
Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.
All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
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
Le coeur a ses raisons dont le cerveau ne sait nul. T: 'The heart has its reasons, of which the mind knows nothing.'