Top 100 Pascal's Quotes
#1. You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God.
Greg Egan
#2. If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert - then it is easier to understand why greener pastures pall on us; why possessions exhaust us, and why Pascal's imaginary man found his comfortable lodgings a prison.
Bruce Chatwin
#3. I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place, since any God worth believing in would prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.
Alan M. Dershowitz
#4. Heart had reasons of which reason knew nothing, the only quote of Pascal's
Karen Marie Moning
#5. Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.
Lytton Strachey
#6. Maybe it is like Pascal's Wager, but I want to believe in the immortality of the soul because consciousness is such a fantastic gift that is feels cruel and unfair to end it so quickly.
Thomm Quackenbush
#7. Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
Blaise Pascal
#8. Anthropologically informed works, from Sir James Frazer's Golden Bough to Pascal Boyer's Religion Explained or Scott Atran's In Gods We Trust, fascinatingly document the bizarre phenomenology of superstition and ritual. Read such books and marvel at the richness of human gullibility. But that is not
Richard Dawkins
#9. The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.
Blaise Pascal
#10. Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it.
Blaise Pascal
#11. Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations?
Pascal Mercier
#12. Man's greatness comes from knowing that he is wretched: a tree does not know it is wretched. Thus it is wretched to know that one is wretched, but there is greatness in knowing one is wretched.
Blaise Pascal
#13. Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
Blaise Pascal
#14. All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.
Blaise Pascal
#15. Knowlege of God without knowledge of man's wretchedness leads to pride. Knowledge of man's wretchedness without knowledge of God leads to despair. Knowledge of Jesus Christ is the middle course, because by it we discover both God and our wretched state.
Blaise Pascal
#16. The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life.
Blaise Pascal
#17. The promises of the Old Covenant were preceded by an "if" that made them conditional on man's obedience, while the promises of the New Covenant were marked by a divine monergism:
Pascal Denault
#18. All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
Blaise Pascal
#19. Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.
Blaise Pascal
#20. TeX has found at least one bug in every Pascal compiler it's been run on, I think, and at least two in every C compiler
Donald Knuth
#21. No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for you - what's happening in your body dictates everything.
Francine Pascal
#22. Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.
Blaise Pascal
#23. Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.
Blaise Pascal
#24. Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise Pascal
#25. When I see people with an interesting gap year, if they can explain it, if they can justify it, if they can show what they've learnt from it, it's sometimes more profitable or more intelligent than having been through a traditional, continuous race from high school to the end of university.
Jean-Pascal Tricoire
#26. One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and greatness within himself. In a word man knows he is wretched. Thus he is wretched because he is so, but he is truly great because he knows it.
Blaise Pascal
#27. Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.
Blaise Pascal
#28. The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery without that of God causes despair. The knowledge of Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in Him we find both God and our misery.
Blaise Pascal
#29. It is superstitious to put one's hope in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.
Blaise Pascal
#30. It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.
Blaise Pascal
#31. Where's Mom? I can't wait to tell her all about this." "She's going to be late. An appointment, I think." "Again?" Jessica pouted. "That makes three nights in a row! I thought mothers were supposed to stay home and fix dinner once in a while!
Francine Pascal
#32. Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.
Blaise Pascal
#33. However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.
Blaise Pascal
#34. I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Francine Pascal
#35. He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright
Blaise Pascal
#36. No one at college ever goes to a party before ten-thirty at the very earliest! They'd rather die. It's so uncool to be early.
Francine Pascal
#37. Since [man's] true nature has been lost, anything can become his nature: similarly, true good being lost, anything can become his true good.
Blaise Pascal
#38. Thus passes away all man's life. Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable. For we think either of the misfortunes we have or of those which threaten us.
Blaise Pascal
#39. All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.
Blaise Pascal
#40. [Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and that's a glaring form of stupidity.
Pascal Mercier
#41. When you are filming, you have to let the thing really open so you can bring more life and details into it and even look for some kind of imperfection. It's good to have a good script but then you must make a mess out of it, I think.
Pascal Chaumeil
#42. They would do better to say: "Our book," "Our commentary," "Our history," etc., because there is in them usually more of other people's than their own.
Blaise Pascal
#43. All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.
Blaise Pascal
#44. It's so trendy, almost bleeding to death. All the cool girls are doing it.
Francine Pascal
#45. We are talking about a bet, remember, and Pascal wasn't claiming that his wager enjoyed anything but very long odds. Would you bet on God's valuing dishonestly faked belief (or even honest belief) over honest scepticism?
Richard Dawkins
#46. It was another one of her father's curses:I'll make you into a freak and not let you tell anyone.
Francine Pascal
#47. I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal
#48. I am such a 'True Detective' fan. I was anticipating it each Sunday as it came. I'm kind of a sci-fi fan. I was really hooked on the 'Battlestar Galactica' series. I think I owned every box set of 'Battlestar Galactica.' I also really love 'Bob's Burgers.'
Pedro Pascal
#49. Quand on voit le style naturel, on est tout e tonne et ravi, car on s'attendait de voir un auteur, et on trouve un homme. When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.
Blaise Pascal
#50. Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things
beyond it.
Blaise Pascal
#51. I suspect you're thinking of Pascal,' Finkler said, finally.'Only he said the opposite. He said you might as well wager on God because that way, even if He doesn't exist, you've nothing to lose. Whereas if you wager against God and He does exist ... '
'You're in the shit.
Howard Jacobson
#52. It's always difficult to tell someone when they're still in love with someone that I think they're going in the wrong way.
Pascal Chaumeil
#53. There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.
Christopher Hitchens
#54. I like the idea of having a film that is choreographic in all its aspects, not only in the dancing scenes, but also in the way the camera and the characters move in order to have that feeling that it's always musical.
Pascal Chaumeil
#56. Ever since her obsession with Jonathan Cain, a deranged transfer student who had been at Sweet Valley for a month, Enid's life had been entirely guyless.
Francine Pascal
#57. Man's sensitivity to little things and insensitivity to the greatest things are marks of a strange disorder.
Blaise Pascal
#58. Kind words produce their images on men's souls.
Blaise Pascal
#59. Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
Blaise Pascal
#60. The Christian's God does not consist merely of a God who is the author of mathematical truths and the order of elements ... But a God of love and consolation.
Blaise Pascal
#61. Dana was lead singer for The Droids, Sweet Valley High's answer to the Rolling Stones. They had a reputation for being pretty wild, but most of it was just conjecture. Not many outsiders knew what went on in the smoky confines of Max Dellon's basement, where they held their practice sessions.
Francine Pascal
#62. A cult!' Elizabeth gasped. 'Here? In Sweet Valley? But that's impossible!
Francine Pascal
#63. It's not just that I'm a horny seventeen year old male and she's a beautiful girl, although I don't necessarily expect you to believe me.
Francine Pascal
#64. Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.
Blaise Pascal
#65. In Bruce's opinion, the only fun in dating was the sport of it. The more it was like a tennis match, where he had to wear down his opponent through expertise and sheer force of will, the better he liked it.
Francine Pascal
#66. She used to write all the time,' Elizabeth explained, 'before she lost all that weight. Remember? When she was the butt of everyone's jokes instead of the girl all the boys want to date?
Francine Pascal
#67. All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.
Blaise Pascal
#68. On the one side are the truths of fact, on the other the truth of the writer's feeling, and where the two coincide cannot be decided by any outside authority in advance.
Roy Pascal
#69. Man's greatness comes from knowing he is wretched.
Blaise Pascal
#70. Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.
Blaise Pascal
#71. We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason.
Blaise Pascal
#72. Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.
Blaise Pascal
#73. I have long since learned, as a measure of elementary hygiene, to be on guard when anyone quotes Pascal.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#74. Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.
Susan Sontag
#75. For in fact what is man in nature? A Nothing in comparison with the Infinite, an All in comparison with the Nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.
Blaise Pascal
#76. We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.
Blaise Pascal
#77. All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.
Blaise Pascal
#78. I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.
Francine Pascal
#79. All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
Blaise Pascal
#80. All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.
Blaise Pascal
#81. Look, girls. It is important to all of us that we win this game, right? Well, when it comes to athletics, boys are simply better suited than girls. It's a fact of nature that no one can change. I'm sorry, but maybe you can play next time when it's less crucial.
Francine Pascal
#82. How inappropriate,' Lila said coldly. 'Who'd ever dream of showing up at a dance in a wheelchair? What does she think she's going to do all night?
Francine Pascal
#83. All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal
#84. What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.
Blaise Pascal
#85. Le nez de Cle opa" tre: s'il e u" t e te plus court, toute la face de la terre aurait change . Cleopatra'snose: if it had beenshorter the whole face of the earth would have been different.
Blaise Pascal
#86. It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.
Blaise Pascal
#87. Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection.
Francine Pascal
#88. Humiliation, by the way, is a truly terrible emotion. It's at the bottom of the pile.
Francine Pascal
#89. But Robin ... well, she's OK. We really don't have much in common, though. I get nervous around people who eat all the time.
Francine Pascal
#90. The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
Blaise Pascal
#91. If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it's possible, in everything.
Blaise Pascal
#92. Honestly,' she said when they were out of Bruce's earshot, 'he's as bad in the kitchen as you are. What do you people do on the servant's night off, anyway?' Lila looked Jessica straight in the eye. 'Cold lobster and caviar,' she said earnestly.
Francine Pascal
#93. All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.
Blaise Pascal
#94. All of man's problems come from the inability to sit quietly in a room.
Blaise Pascal
#95. The sole case of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room
Blaise Pascal
#96. The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.
Blaise Pascal
#97. Nature's a funny old thing, it does whatever it pleases. He had always been a little afraid of it. He tiptoed into forests, speaking in a whisper, as though entering a church. Nature was mysterious, incomprehensible, impenetrable, off limits, like the ladies' toilets.
Pascal Garnier
#98. Work will take everything you give it. It's up to you to work out what you want to give it.
Amy Pascal
#99. The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing.
Blaise Pascal
#100. Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!
Adam Pascal
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