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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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  • All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.
    Original: Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.
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  • All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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  • It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
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  • ...whoever imagines a woman after this model, which consists in saying little things in big words, will see a pretty girl adorned with mirrors and chains...
    Pensees (1669)
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  • Admiration spoils all from infancy. Ah! How well said! Ah! How well done! How well-behaved he is! etc.
    Pensees (1669)
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  • After all he is only a man, that is to say capable of little and of much, of all and of nothing; he is neither angel nor brute, but man.
    Pensees (1669)
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  • All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised?
    Pensees (1669)
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  • Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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  • Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
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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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  • Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
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  • Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
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  • By knowing each man's ruling passion, we are sure of pleasing him; and yet each has his fancies, opposed to his true good, in the very idea which he has of the good.
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  • Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.
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  • Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
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  • Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
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  • Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
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  • Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
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  • Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
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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."
  • "All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone."

When did Blaise Pascal live?

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