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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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  • Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
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  • Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
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  • Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
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  • Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
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  • Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.
    Pensees (1669)
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  • Nature gives us... passions and desires suitable to our present state. We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves...
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  • Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.
    Pensees (1669)
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  • Nature has set us so well in the center, that if we change one side of the balance, we change the other also. I act. This makes me believe that the springs in our brain are so adjusted that he who touches one touches also its contrary.
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  • Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
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  • Our nature consist in motion; complete rest is death.
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  • The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
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What are the most famous quotes from Blaise Pascal?

The two most famous quotes from Blaise Pascal are:

  • "Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us."
  • "Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?"

When did Blaise Pascal live?

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