Blaise Pascal Quotes

Biography: Blaise Pascal is known for his contributions to mathematics, physics, ... more Biography: Blaise Pascal is known for his contributions to mathematics, physics, and philosophy. A child prodigy, he made significant advancements in the study of fluids, clarified concepts of pressure and vacuum, and invented the mechanical calculator known as the Pascaline. His philosophical work culminated in the "Pensées," a collection of deep reflections on human nature and faith. less

"There are only two kinds of men; the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous""Clarity of mind means clarity of passion too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves""The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob not the God of the philosophers""If everyone knew what others said about him there would not be four friends in the world""The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason""We arrive at truth, not by reason only, but also by the heart""The more I see of men, the better I like my dog""To understand is to forgive""Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere""Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction""People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive""It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants ""The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first ""The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me""Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much""We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything""Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary""In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't""I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter""Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed"

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