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
Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master. When we disobey the latter we are punished, when we disobey the former we are fools.
Two extremes: to exclude reason, to admit reason only.
The most powerful cause of error is the war existing between the senses and reason
Love has its reasons that Reason knows not
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. We feel it in a thousand things. I say that the heart naturally loves the Universal Being, and naturally loves itself; and it gives itself to one or the other, and hardens itself against one or the other, as it chooses...it is the heart that feels God, not the reason; this is faith.
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason.
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.
We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.
Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists
Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.
Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.