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Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

French mathematician, physicist and philosopher

Lived from: 1623 - 1662

Category: Philosophers | Scientists Country: FlagFrance

Born: 19 june 1623 Died: 19 august 1662

  • The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.
  • For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?
  • Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.
  • In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
  • Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. If they reach the point, they either crush it, or lean all round, more on the false than on the true.
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  • All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
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  • Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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  • I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.
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  • Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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  • Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.
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  • Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
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What are the most famous quotes from Blaise Pascal?

The two most famous quotes from Blaise Pascal are:

  • "All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room."
  • "Evil is easy, and has infinite forms."

When did Blaise Pascal live?

Blaise Pascal was born in 1623 and died in the year 1662.