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
Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.
All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.
All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.
The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.
The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.
Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
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.'