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Blaise Pascal

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Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and philosopher. A child prodigy in mathematics, he made foundational contributions to probability theory and invented an early mechanical calculator. His *Pensées*, a collection of fragments on theology and philosophy, remains one of the masterpieces of French prose.

“When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.”

— Blaise Pascal

Love

All Quotes by Blaise Pascal

“Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.”

— Blaise Pascal

Beauty

“If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.”

— Blaise Pascal

Future

“Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.”

— Blaise Pascal

Truth

“The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.”

— Blaise Pascal

Great

“The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.”

— Blaise Pascal

Men

“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.”

— Blaise Pascal

Men

“Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.”

— Blaise Pascal

Experience

“The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.”

— Blaise Pascal

God

“Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.”

— Blaise Pascal

Nature

“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”

— Blaise Pascal

Men

“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.”

— Blaise Pascal

Faith

“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.”

— Blaise Pascal

Nature

“Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.”

— Blaise Pascal

Religion

“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”

— Blaise Pascal

Alone

“Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.”

— Blaise Pascal

Inspirational

“Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.”

— Blaise Pascal

Imagination

“One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.”

— Blaise Pascal

Truth

“I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”

— Blaise Pascal

Time

“Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see it is above, not against them.”

— Blaise Pascal

Faith

“Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.”

— Blaise Pascal

Strength