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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.

“It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.”

— Blaise Pascal

God

All Quotes by Blaise Pascal

“Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.”

— Blaise Pascal

Faith

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

— Blaise Pascal

Love

“Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.”

— Blaise Pascal

Change

“That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.”

— Blaise Pascal

God

“Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.”

— Blaise Pascal

God

“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.”

— Blaise Pascal

Nature

“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

“Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.”

— Blaise Pascal

Faith

“Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.”

— Blaise Pascal

Truth

“The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.”

— Blaise Pascal

Great

“We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.”

— Blaise Pascal

Truth

“Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.”

— Blaise Pascal

Power

“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

“If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!”

— Blaise Pascal

Religion

“It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.”

— Blaise Pascal

God

“As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.”

— Blaise Pascal

Death

“Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.”

— Blaise Pascal

Men

“Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth give him too much, the same.”

— Blaise Pascal

Truth

“The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.”

— Blaise Pascal

Death

“Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.”

— Blaise Pascal

Nature