Blaise Pascal Quotes
1623–1662 France
Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, logician, physicist and theologian.
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Also known as: Pascal, Blaise
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In writing a book, the last thing that one learns is to know what to put first.
The world is satisfied with words. Few appreciate the things beneath.
With reverence be it spoken... The only thing bad is their excuse…
Geometry is almost the only subject as to which we find truths wherein all men agree; and one cause of this is, that geometers alone regard the true laws of demonstration.
Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth.
Compare not thyself with others, but with Me. If thou dost not find Me in those with whom thou comparest thyself, thou comparest thyself to one who is abominable.
Pensées (1669)
Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.
I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
We ought not to be angry at their knowing our faults and despising us; it is but right that they should know us for what we are contemptible.
It is a natural illness of man to think that he possesses the truth directly…
Opinion is the queen of the world.
If we look at our work immediately after completing it, we are still too involved; if too long afterwards, we cannot pick up the thread again.
The best books are those, which those who read them believe they themselves could have written.
Do not mistake yourself by believing that your being has something in it more exalted than that of others.
These eight rules [above] contain all the precepts for solid and immutable proofs.
Five [of the above] rules are of absolute necessity, and cannot be dispensed with without essential defect and often without error.
God is surrounded with people full of love who demand of him the benefits of love which are in his power: thus he is properly the king of love.
That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness; that is most remarkable.
FIRE. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and scholars. Certainty. Certainty. Feeling. Joy. Peace.