Inspirational Quotes by Blaise Pascal
“There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.”
“Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.”
topics: Humility
“Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.”
topics: Humility
“The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.”
topics: Humility
“Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.”
topics: Humility
“I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”
topics: Humorous
“We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.”
topics: Hypocrisy
“There is nothing so abominable in the eyes of God and of men as idolatry, whereby men render to the creature that honor which is due only to the Creator”
topics: Idolatry
“Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except through Jesus Christ.”
topics: Jesus
“Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.”
“Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.”
topics: Justice
“Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.”
topics: Justice
“Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.”
topics: Justice
“The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.”
topics: Justice
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Among the contemporaries of Descartes none displayed greater natural genius than Pascal, but his mathematical reputation rests more on what he might have done than on what he actually effected, as during a considerable part of his life he deemed it his duty to devote his whole time to religious exercises.
At 16, Pascal began designing a calculating machine, which he finally perfected when he was thirty, the pascaline, a beautiful handcrafted box about fourteen by five by three inches. The first accurate mechanical calculator was born.
Pascal was dismayed and disgusted by society's reactions to his machine and completely renounced his interest in science an mathematics, devoting the rest of his life to God. He is best known for his collection of spiritual essays, Les Pensees.
Ironically, Pascal, who was a genius by any measure, with one of the finest brains of all time, died of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 39.
Among the contemporaries of Descartes none displayed greater natural genius than Pascal, but his mathematical reputation rests more on what he might have done than on what he actually effected, as during a considerable part of his life he deemed it his duty to devote his whole time to religious exercises.
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.
In 1646, he and his sister Jacqueline identified with the religious movement within Catholicism known by its detractors as Jansenism. Following a mystical experience in late 1654, he had his "second conversion", abandoned his scientific work, and devoted himself to philosophy and theology. His two most famous works date from this period: the Lettres provinciales and the Pensees.
In honor of his scientific contributions, the name Pascal has been given to the SI unit of pressure, to a programming language, and Pascal's law (an important principle of hydrostatics), and as mentioned above, Pascal's triangle and Pascal's wager still bear his name.