Blaise Pascal

Naissance 19 June 1623 · Décès 19 August 1662

Originaire de birth house of Blaise Pascal, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France · Nationalité : Kingdom of France · Écrit des essais et documents

French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher.

Citations

“People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.”
De l'Art de persuader ["On the Art of Persuasion"], written 1658; published postEn anglais
“Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ, by commanding his followers to lay down their own lives.”
Chapter XVIEn anglais
“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.”
Discourses on the Condition of the GreatEn anglais
“The best books are those, which those who read them believe they themselves could have written.”
The Art of PersuasionEn anglais
“If we do not secure the foundation, we cannot secure the edifice.”
The Art of PersuasionEn anglais

Les livres de Blaise Pascal dans l'ordre

Les livres de Blaise Pascal dans l'ordre de parution, de Les provinciales (1656) à Pensamentos (2021).