40 Philosophical Blaise Pascal Quotes About God & More
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Blaise Pascal was a well-known French scientist who made significant contributions to arithmetic and physics. His father largely home-schooled him, as he did not like how schools used to provide education.
Blaise Pascal wrote a book, Essay on Comics, in 1640 when he was sixteen years old. It was based on cone geometry. In this book, Blaise Pascal gives the spiritualist hexagram a central role. Blaise Pascal invented the computing machine when he was nineteen years old. It has the ability to add and remove items by having a user move a series of riggings and chambers. This was an early computer.
Blaise Pascal, on his own, experimented with many geometrical figures. Because he had not been shown the traditional phrases, Blaise Pascal invented his own names for geometrical terms. Few people believe Blaise Pascal was twelve years old when he began attending scientific institute meetings with his father. According to many researchers, Blaise Pascal did not participate in the gatherings until he was sixteen.
These famous Blaise Pascal quotes can transform your life by providing a fresh perspective on how you view various elements in your life.
Blaise Pascal Quotes About God
Blaise Pascal was a theologian who followed Christianity, the traditional principles of God, and the sacred essence of religion. He was a staunch believer in Christianity as the path to salvation. Here are some Blaise Pascal quotes about God and religion.
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
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“He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him alright.”
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“What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.”
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“Human beings must be known to be loved, but Divine beings must be loved to be known.”
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“The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.”
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“It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.”
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“I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.”
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“If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.”
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“Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.”
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“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.”
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“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.”
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“Atheists ought to say what is perfectly evident; now it is not perfectly evident that the soul is material.”
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“Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.”
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Blaise Pascal Inspirational Quotes
What could be more inspirational than the life of a great theologist himself? These Blaise Pascal quotes are sure to inspire you to achieve greater heights.
“Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.”
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“Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.”
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“Imagination decides everything.”
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SOURCE: PASCAL PENSÉES
“You always admire what you really don’t understand.”
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“Little things comfort us because little things distress us.”
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“The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.”
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“Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.”
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Philosophical Blaise Pascal Quotes
Blaise Pascal had gone on and on about the meaning of human existence in connection to God, the human intellect, and other cosmic forces. Read on to these Blaise Pascal quotes on philosophy and existentialism.
“It is man’s natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.”
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SOURCE: OF THE GEOMETRICAL SPIRIT
“We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.”
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“To understand is to forgive.”
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“Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.”
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“To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.”
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“Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.”
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“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”
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SOURCE: THOUGHTS
“Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.”
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“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.”
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“The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.”
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“Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.”
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“We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.”
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SOURCE: THOUGHTS
“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
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“Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.”
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SOURCE: HOYT’S NEW CYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL QUOTATIONS
Blaise Pascal was a lot younger than the other people in the room. The Pascal family relocated to Rouen, France, in 1640. Blaise Pascal was still instructed mainly by his father. He remained in a state of weakness for the majority of the time. During this time, he developed another hypothesis or numerical recipe in geometry. This idea was referred to as a “spiritualist hexagram” by Blaise Pascal in various instances.
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Nitesh Kuchhal, an IIM Calcutta graduate, is more than an educator—he's a mentor. With a passion for leadership and entrepreneurship, and travel. He has explored over 20 countries. Beyond teaching, he dives into psychology and discusses social issues. Though he is not a history expert, he enjoys learning about it through books, adding a historical touch to his many interests.
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