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Blaise Pascal

~ 1623 - 1662

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Catholic theologian. He is known for his contributions to mathematics and physics, including Pascal's Triangle, Pascal's law of fluid mechanics, and the development of the early calculator known as the Pascaline.

  1. It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

    Blaise Pascal
    #fight#pleasure#victory

  2. He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

    Blaise Pascal
    #truth#duty#providence

  3. Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

    Blaise PascalPensées, Section VI, 1660
    #instinct#experience#nature

  4. Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

    Blaise Pascal
    #minds#perspective#greatness

  5. I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

    Blaise PascalPensées, 1670
    #faith#existence#choice

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

    Blaise PascalIPerceptive
    #knowledge#curiosity#learning

  7. The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

    Blaise PascalPensées, 1670
    #virtue#strength#habit

  8. In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

    Blaise PascalPensées, 1670
    #faith#belief#perception

  9. The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

    Blaise PascalPensées, p. 123, 1995
    #nature#impact#interconnectedness

  10. All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

    Blaise PascalPensées, p. 39, 1958
    #solitude#reflection#humanity

  11. Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

    Blaise PascalPensées, ch. 14, Appendix: Polemical Fragments #895, 1669 [tr. Trotter, 1910]
    #religion#morality#conviction

  12. The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

    Blaise PascalPensées, 1670
    #heart#emotion#reason