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Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
- inventor
- He also invented the first adding machine in 1642.
- writer
- philosopher
- He contributed to the theory of probability.
- He’s famous for the Pascal Wager.
Anything that is written to please the author is worthless.
– Blaise Pascal
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
– Blaise Pascal
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Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
– Blaise Pascal
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I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.
—Blaise Pascal
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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.
~Blaise Pascal
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It is not certain that everything is uncertain.
– Blaise Pascal
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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
– Blaise Pascal
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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.
– Blaise Pascal
“Kind words don’t cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
~Blaise Pascal
Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is, but let us consider the two possibilities. If you gain, you gain all if you lose you lose nothing. hesitate not, then, to wager that He is. (Pascal’s Wager)
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Most of the evils of life arise from man’s being unable to sit still in a room.
– Blaise Pascal
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Man is but a reed, the weakest thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
– Blaise Pascal
(I love the quote. Man is weak, easily bent, but he is strong because of ability to think, to reason)
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Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
– Blaise Pascal
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
– Blaise Pascal
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Nature has perfection, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image.
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To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
~Blaise Pascal
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing of. (The heart has its reason, which reason does not know.)
– Blaise Pascal
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Apparently the heart is more than just a pumping machine for blood. It stores data, it has a neuro-network just like the brain.
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When we encounter a natural style we are always surprised and delighted, for we thought to see an author and found a man.
– Blaise Pascal
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When we are too young our judgment is at fault; so also when we are too old.
—Pascal.
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We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
– Pascal
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We find fault with perfection itself.
– Blaise Pascal
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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
– Blaise Pascal
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“You always admire what you really don’t understand.”
~Pascal