Blaise Pascal Biography

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher
Occup.Philosopher
FromFrance
BornJune 19, 1623
Clermont-Ferrand, France
DiedAugust 19, 1662
Paris, France
CauseStomach Cancer
Aged39 years
Blaise Pascal was born upon June 19, 1623, in the French community of Clermont-Ferrand. As a mathematician, physicist, and also creator, Pascal is born in mind for his groundbreaking payments in likelihood concept, hydrodynamics, hydromechanics, and many various other areas. His concepts helped lay the structure for the modern-day computer system, along with considerable advancements in fluid and also air pressure.

Pascal was born to a notable household with honorable family tree. His father, Étienne Pascal, an accomplished mathematician and also tax enthusiast, played a pivotal duty in promoting his child's education and learning. Blaise got a considerable home-school education in maths, physics, as well as the standards. His daddy's links made it feasible for him to engage with significant thinkers, such as Pierre de Fermat, Gilles de Roberval, and also René Descartes.

At just 16, Pascal drafted "Essai put les coniques", a groundbreaking file that delved into the research of conic areas, which established his track record on the planet of maths. In 1642, he invented the initial mechanical calculator, or the Pascaline, to help his father in tax collection. Although not completely sensible, the Pascaline is taken into consideration a very early forefather of modern-day computing devices.

Proceeding his large range of interests, Pascal postulated the principle of pressure in fluid auto mechanics, buoyancy, as well as vacuum cleaner development by experimenting with a barometer. Pascal's experiments gave proof wherefore would certainly later be referred to as the 'Pascal's Law,' which states that stress adjustment experienced by a fluid is transferred undiminished and equally in all directions. Pascal's Law is vital to comprehending hydrodynamics, hydromechanics, as well as the actions of gases under pressure.

Likewise, Pascal made substantial advancements in the realm of probability concept. Through communication with Fermat, both mathematicians changed how scientific research and math came close to issues of opportunity, danger, as well as assumption. Today, their work creates the basis of decision theory and also game concept, which drive calculated decision-making in economics, organization, as well as social sciences.

In his thirties, Pascal experienced an extensive spiritual conversion that led him to join the Catholic sect called Jansenism. His theological works, most notably, "Les Provinciales" and "Pensées", are admired as a few of the most established jobs of French prose. His reflection on the nature of human existence in "Pensées" remains to reverberate with visitors to now.

Pascal's religious devotion spurred him to design the first mass transit system in Paris in the 1660s, focused on supporting the oratory efforts of the Jansenists, as well as efficiently spearheaded the idea of public transit.

Despite his immense payments to a lot of areas-- scientific research, mathematics, faith, and also transportation-- Pascal's wellness was never robust. He dealt with a range of ailments, most likely including consumption, which eventually claimed his life on August 19, 1662, at the young age of 39. His diverse series of accomplishments, breadth of intellect, and also long-term effect on numerous areas make Blaise Pascal one of the most influential French thinkers of the 17th century.

Our collection contains 94 quotes who is written / told by Blaise, under the main topics: Happiness - Faith - Patriotism - Inspirational - Religion.

Related authors: Pierre de Fermat (Lawyer)

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94 Famous quotes by Blaise Pascal

Small: Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involu
"Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones"
Small: Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unplea
"Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm"
Small: Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth give him too much, the same - Blaise Pascal
"Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same"
Small: The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter - Blaise Pascal
"The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter"
Small: The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon ou
"The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever"
Small: I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world - B
"I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world"
Small: Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot kn
"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it"
Small: The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion -
"The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion"
Small: Love has reasons which reason cannot understand - Blaise Pascal
"Love has reasons which reason cannot understand"
Small: If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists - Bla
"If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists"
Small: Law, without force, is impotent - Blaise Pascal
"Law, without force, is impotent"
Small: If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a pa
"If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?"
Small: If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world - Blaise Pascal
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world"
Small: People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which
"People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others"
Small: If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future - Blaise Pascal
"If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future"
Small: Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed - Blaise Pascal
"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed"
Small: The strength of a mans virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts - Blai
"The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts"
Small: Evil is easy, and has infinite forms - Blaise Pascal
"Evil is easy, and has infinite forms"
Small: Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works des
"Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them"
Small: Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts - Blaise Pascal
"Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts"
Small: Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason - Blaise Pascal
"Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason"
Small: Do you wish people to think well of you? Dont speak well of yourself - Blaise Pascal
"Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself"
Small: Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions desire causes our voluntary acts, force our
"Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary"
Small: Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom? - Blaise Pascal
"Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?"
Small: Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth - Blaise Pascal
"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth"
Small: Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them - Blaise Pascal
"Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them"
Small: Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a rive
"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?"
Small: Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world - Blaise Pascal
"Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world"
Small: Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its t
"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"
Small: Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree - Blaise Pascal
"Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree"
Small: As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order t
"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"
Small: All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling - Blaise Pascal
"All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling"
Small: All mens miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone - Blaise Pascal
"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone"
Small: All human evil comes from a single cause, mans inability to sit still in a room - Blaise Pascal
"All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room"
Small: A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us - Blaise Pascal
"A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us"
Small: You always admire what you really dont understand - Blaise Pascal
"You always admire what you really don't understand"
Small: Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects
"Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects"
Small: When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed for we expected to see an author, and we find a per
"When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person"
Small: When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before - Blaise Pascal
"When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before"
Small: We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes we have no wish to find them alike - Bla
"We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike"
Small: We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end - Blaise Pascal
"We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end"
Small: We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it - Blaise Pas
"We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it"
Small: We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting - Blaise Pascal
"We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting"
Small: We never love a person, but only qualities - Blaise Pascal
"We never love a person, but only qualities"
Small: To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher - Blaise Pascal
"To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher"
Small: Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the
"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"
Small: Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he tha
"Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him"
Small: Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom through thought I comprehend the world
"Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world"
Small: There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only b
"There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus"
Small: There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they k
"There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him"
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