Inspirational Quotes by Blaise Pascal
“If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.”
“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.”
“Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.”
“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.”
topics: Reasoning
“Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.”
“The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.”
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“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”
“The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.”
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“Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.”
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“We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.”
“We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.”
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“Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.”
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“The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.”
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“Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can go only so far, but faith has no limits.”
“Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.”
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
“It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.”
topics: Salvation
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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.