Blaise Pascal Quotes
Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures.
Pascal, Blaise. Pensées. Translated by W. F. Trotter, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910, p. 8.
Executed by the English for his part in the Easter Uprising. At the time English was the world language of commerce and French, the language of diplomacy.
After the Constitution had been ratified, there was a concerted attempt on the part of the Southern Slave States to minimize the importance of the Declaration of Independence. They feared that the equality principle in the Declaration should be seen by Americans as desirable policy which clearly meant slavery was untenable. There were three approaches all used by the Southerners. First, they tried to make it clear that the Declaration had no weight in American law or moral principles as it was superseded by the Constitution. Second, they claimed that it could only have applied to white men as Black males were not really men. Third, that the statement was patently false. This quotation illustrates the latter.
Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, writer and Catholic theologian.
