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
Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives
This religion taught to her children what men have only been able to discover by their greatest knowledge.
The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with the lips, and soon, in order that proud man, who would not submit himself to God, may be now subject to the creature.
Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.
If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.
Which is the more believable of the two, Moses or China?
That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.
You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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