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Blaise Pascal (/pæˈskæl, pɑːˈskɑːl/; French: [blɛz paskal]; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic theologian. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalising the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote in defence of the scientific method.

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I know whom I have believed.

Believed, Faith, Know, Knows

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

Aim, Charity, Figurative, Scripture, Sole

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.

Independence, Longing, Man, Men, Needs

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

Guide, May, Safely, Takes, Trust In God, Truth

In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a tempest upon an unknown island, the inhabitants of which were in trouble to find their king, who was lost; and having a strong resemblance both in form and face to this king, he was taken for him, and acknowledged in this capacity by all the people.

Kings, Real, Resemblance, Strong, Tempest, Unknown

By thought I embrace the universe.

Embrace, Universe, Thought

All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.

Due, Fact, Man, Men, Rooms, World

Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.

Jesus, Garden, Race, Human, Agony

God is, or He is not. " But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separated us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager?

Distance, God, Heads, Heads Or Tails, Separated

God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind.

Clear, Convince, Given, Heart, Mind

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

Arranged, Different, Different Meanings, Effects, Meaning, Words

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

Despise, Fear, Hate, Men

The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.

Clings, Mind, Progress, Want, Wrong

True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which has no rules, makes light of the morality of the intellect. . . . To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Judgment, Light, Morality, Philosophy

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Humble, Humility, People, Speak, Thinking, Wish

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Being Yourself, Discovery, Inspirational, Nothing, Oneself, Serve

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Afflict, Console, Inspirational, Little Things, Littles, Things

Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.

Impenetrable, Knowledge, Men, Nothing, Secret, Things

Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give them spiritual insight, without which faith is only human and useless for salvation.

Giving, Intuition, Salvation, Spiritual, Waiting

The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr. , Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source. ]

Dans, Mieux, Purer, Purity, Source, Streams

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