Blaise Pascal | Physicist & Philosopher

Blaise Pascal. Mathematician, physicist, philosopher. Thought about infinity a bit too much.

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Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

[Blaise Pascal | Physicist & Philosopher @BlaisePascalll]

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

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We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

[Blaise Pascal | Physicist & Philosopher @BlaisePascalll]

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

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

[Blaise Pascal | Physicist & Philosopher @BlaisePascalll]

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

[Blaise Pascal | Physicist & Philosopher @BlaisePascalll]

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

[Blaise Pascal | Physicist & Philosopher @BlaisePascalll]

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.

[Blaise Pascal | Physicist & Philosopher @BlaisePascalll]

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

[Blaise Pascal | Physicist & Philosopher @BlaisePascalll]

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

[Blaise Pascal | Physicist & Philosopher @BlaisePascalll]

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

[Blaise Pascal | Physicist & Philosopher @BlaisePascalll]

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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To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

[Blaise Pascal | Physicist & Philosopher @BlaisePascalll]

I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

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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 | Physicist & Philosopher @BlaisePascalll]

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

[Blaise Pascal | Physicist & Philosopher @BlaisePascalll]

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

[Blaise Pascal | Physicist & Philosopher @BlaisePascalll]

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

[Blaise Pascal | Physicist & Philosopher @BlaisePascalll]

Little things comfort us because little things distress us.

[Blaise Pascal | Physicist & Philosopher @BlaisePascalll]

I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.