Home / Quotes / Quote by Blaise Pascal

Quote by Blaise Pascal

“We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to refute them.”

Quote by Blaise Pascal

Book:Pascal Pensées

Work

Pascal Pensées

Pascal Pensées is a compilation of the French philosopher Blaise Pascal's thoughts and arguments on various subjects including religion, mathematics, and human nature. more

Author

Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and theologian. He was born on June 19, 1623, and died on August 19, 1662. Pascal's contributions to mathematics were particularly significant, with groundbreaking work in probability theory, analytical geometry, and early calculus. more

You May Also Like

“Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical truth.”

Truth Science Modern Errors Replaced Fables Superstitious Modern Science Picturesque

Book:So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh

Source: So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh

“While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.”

Men Believe Facts Truth Sake Seeking Seeking Truth

Book:Tragic Sense of Life

Source: Tragic Sense of Life

“You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly admit that I am strongly attracted by the simplicity and beauty of mathematical schemes which nature presents us. You must have felt this too: the almost frightening simplicity and wholeness of the relationship, which nature suddenly spreads out before us.”

May Truth Science Felt Nature Natural Objects Simplicity Spread Mathematical Aesthetic Introducing Frightening Schemes Wholeness Criteria

Author:Werner Heisenberg

“[I]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics, in so far as disposed through it we are able to reach certainty in other sciences and truth by the exclusion of error.”

Should Truth Able Science Doubt Mathematics Foundation Errors Certainty Exclusion

Author:Roger Bacon

“[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a commanding view, though but of a small part of its plan, we never fail to recognize that sublime simplicity on which the mind rests satisfied that it has attained the truth.”

Mind Moments Truth Science Nature Views Plans Failing Position Simplicity Complicated Satisfied Contemplating Sublime Small Parts

Author:John Herschel

“Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.”

Courage Perseverance Harvest Sowing

Author:Seneca the Younger

“There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.”

Ifs Accepting Perseverance Defeat

Book:Quite contrary

Source: Quite contrary

“At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.”

Inspirational Firsts Enough Hope Too Much Perseverance

Author:Philibert Joseph Roux

“You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.”

Problem Challenges Numbers Successful Overcoming Perseverance

Author:Mark Victor Hansen

“Pay little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point.”

Littles Doe Pay Attention Rain Shining Perseverance Rough Smooth Port Discouragement Cargo Rain Or Shine

Book:Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock