Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
Discourses on the Condition of the Great
Context: This right which you have, is not founded any more than his upon any quality or any merit in yourself which renders you worthy of it. Your soul and your body are, of themselves, indifferent to the state of boatman or that of duke; and there is no natural bond that attaches them to one condition rather than to another.
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
The Art of Persuasion
“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
Variant: Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
“You always admire what you really don't understand.”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
Variant: All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.
Source: Pensées
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
“Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
“To understand is to forgive.”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
Often misattributed to Twain, this is actually by Blaise Pascal, "Lettres provinciales", letter 16, 1657:
Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.
Translation: I have only made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the opportunity to make it shorter.
Misattributed
Source: The Provincial Letters
“It is better to know something about everything then everything about something”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
„A legkisebb mozgás is fontos az egész természet számára. Az egész óceánra hatással van egy kavics.”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) francia matematikus, fizikus, vallásfilozófus, teológus és moralista
„Rövidebb levelet írtam volna, de nem volt rá időm.”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) francia matematikus, fizikus, vallásfilozófus, teológus és moralista
„… a túlzott jóindulat is zavarja az embert.”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) francia matematikus, fizikus, vallásfilozófus, teológus és moralista
