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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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  • Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
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  • How much greater confidence has an advocate, retained with a large fee, in the justice of his cause! How much better does his bold manner make his case appear to the judges, deceived as they are by appearances! How ludicrous is reason, blown with a breath in every direction!
    Pensees (1669)
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  • 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.
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  • It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
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  • Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipice below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.
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  • 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.
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  • Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference...
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  • The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.
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  • The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.
    Pensees
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  • The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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  • The war existing between the senses and reason.
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  • The wisest reason takes as her own principles those which the imagination of man has everywhere rashly introduced.
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What are the most famous quotes from Blaise Pascal?

The two most famous quotes from Blaise Pascal are:

  • "Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason."
  • "How much greater confidence has an advocate, retained with a large fee, in the justice of his cause! How much better does his bold manner make his case appear to the judges, deceived as they are by appearances! How ludicrous is reason, blown with a breath in every direction!"

When did Blaise Pascal live?

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