Quotes by Blaise Pascal

About Blaise Pascal:

Blaise Pascal was 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 generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote in defense of the scientific method.
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Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

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If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

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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.

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Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

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When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, or what will ...

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I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

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Knowlege of God without knowledge of man's wretchedness leads to pride. Knowledge of man's wretchedness without knowledge of God leads to despair. Knowledge of Jesus Christ is the middle course, because by it we discover both God and our wretched sta...

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Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.

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When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to s...

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To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.

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Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.

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Kind words produce their images on men's souls.

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Happiness is neither within us only, or without us; it is the union of ourselves with God.

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The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

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I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.

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Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

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I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.

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There is nothing we can now call our own, for what we call so is the effect of art; crimes are made by decrees of the senate, or by the votes of the people; and as here-to-fore we are burdened by vices, so now we are oppressed by laws.

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Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

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Ciascuno esamini i propri pensieri: li troverà sempre occupati dal passato e dall'avvenire. Non pensiamo quasi mai al presente, o se ci pensiamo, è solo per prenderne lume al fine di predisporre l'avvenire. Il presente non è mai il nostro fine: il...

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To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

Blaise Pascal

Author Bio

  • NameBlaise Pascal
  • DescriptionFrench mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
  • BornJune 19, 1623
  • DiedAugust 19, 1662
  • CountryKingdom Of France
  • ProfessionMathematician; Philosopher; Theologian; Physicist; Writer