Top 100 Quotes About Blaise Pascal

#1. All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

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#2. 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.

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#3. 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.

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#4. Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.

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#5. 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.

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#6. That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness; that is most remarkable.

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#7. Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.

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#8. Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.

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#9. Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.

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#10. Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!

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#11. The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.

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#12. Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.

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#13. The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.

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#14. The last act is bloody, however fine the rest of the play

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#15. Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

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#16. You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.

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#17. In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.

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#18. This is how the whole of our life slips by. We seek repose by battling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome we find rest is unbearable because of the boredom it generates ... We can't imaging a condition that is pleasant without fun and noise.

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#19. I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

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#20. Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them.

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#21. Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride.
Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair.
Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.

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#22. We seek rest in a struggle against some obstacles. And when we have overcome these, rest proves unbearable because of the boredom it produces ...

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#23. The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from age to age; and although she is always the same in herself, she is not always equally well known.

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#24. For the chief malady of man is restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose.

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#25. Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should be told the truth, he shuns saying it to others; and all these moods, so inconsistent with justice and reason, have their roots in his heart.

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#26. Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave

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#27. The heart has reasons of which the mind knows nothing.

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#28. We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

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#29. I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.

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#30. We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.

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#31. Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

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#32. May God never abandon me.

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#33. Little things comfort us because little things distress us.

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#34. Know then, proud man, what a paradox you are to yourself. Be humble, impotent reason! Be silent, feeble nature! Learn that man infinitely transcends man, hear from your master your true condition, which is unknown to you.

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#35. [T]he sovereignty of reason and justice is no more tyrannical than that of desire. They are principles natural to man.

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#36. There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man without God, or the strength of man with God.

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#37. The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

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#38. Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it.

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#39. How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.

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#40. The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

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#41. No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.

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#42. Man's greatness comes from knowing he is wretched.

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#43. Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity weakens an argument, too much pleasure gives pain, too much accordance annoys.

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#44. There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them.

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#45. You always admire what you really don't understand.

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#46. If we look at our work immediately after completing it, we are still too involved; if too long afterwards, we cannot pick up the thread again. It

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#47. - Pascal, if I remember rightly, would not suffer his mother to kiss him as he feared the contact of her sex.

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#48. Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

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#49. Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints.

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#50. We are troubled only by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves.

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#51. Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

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#52. Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

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#53. The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us, and which touches us so profoundly, that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent as to knowing what it is.

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#54. The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart from science, and the imitations of it, there are no
true demonstrations.

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#55. If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exsists.

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#56. Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.

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#57. 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.

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#58. When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true.

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#59. The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.

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#60. Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.

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#61. We show greatness, not by being at one extreme, but by touching both at once and occupying all the space in between.

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#62. I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.

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#63. The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

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#64. Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

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#65. Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.

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#66. There is nothing so consistent with reason as this denial of reason.

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#67. It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles.

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#68. In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

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#69. The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.

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#70. To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.

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#71. Symmetry is what we see at a glance.

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#72. All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.

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#73. All their principles are true, sceptics, stoics, atheists, etc...but their conclusions are false, because the contrary principles are also true.

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#74. If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the lost effort is negligible in comparison to what is at risk in not seeking God in the first place.

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#75. As men who naturally understand their own condition avoid nothing so much as rest, so there is nothing they leave undone in seeking turmoil.

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#76. The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.

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#77. Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force.

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#78. Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

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#79. The greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is nature, we call in man wretchedness
by which we recognize that, his nature being now like that of animals, he has fallen from a better nature which once was his.

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#80. Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

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#81. There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.

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#82. Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride. Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair. Knowing Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.

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#83. If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man ... ?

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#84. Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

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#85. Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.

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#86. Vanity is but the surface.

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#87. 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.

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#88. As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

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#89. We run carelessly over the precipice after having put something in front of us to prevent us seeing it.

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#90. All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.

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#91. When you say that Christ did not die for all men, you are abusing a weakness of men, who at once apply this exception to themselves, and this encourages despair, instead of turning them away from it to encourage hope.

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#92. The only shame is to have none.

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#93. To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction.

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#94. Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.

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#95. That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

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#96. So imprudent are we that we wander in the times which are not ours, and do not think of the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more, and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists.

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#97. Either God exists or He doesn't. Either I believe in God or I don't. Of the four possibilities, only one is to my disadvantage. To avoid that possibility, I believe in God.

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#98. How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.

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#99. Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

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#100. Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

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