Top 100 Quotes About Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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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.

Blaise Pascal

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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.

Blaise Pascal

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#4. 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

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#5. I have long since learned, as a measure of elementary hygiene, to be on guard when anyone quotes Pascal.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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

Blaise Pascal

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#7. 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

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#8. Don't make light of werewolves, Jessica,' Luke said in a quiet voice. 'They're very serious business.

Francine Pascal

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#9. 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.

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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#13. 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!

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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#16. 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.

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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#18. A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too long.

Pascal Mercier

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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#22. 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.

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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#24. 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.

Blaise Pascal

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#25. 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.

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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#27. 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.

Blaise Pascal

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#28. 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.

Blaise Pascal

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#29. 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.

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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#34. 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.

Blaise Pascal

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#35. 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?

Blaise Pascal

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#36. May God never abandon me.

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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#38. 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.

Blaise Pascal

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#39. Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years.

Pascal Mercier

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

Blaise Pascal

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#41. Remorse is extremely useful for a generation which has in fact dirtied its hands but for the next generation you cannot ask, for instance, young Germans today to feel guilty about Hitlerism.

Pascal Bruckner

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#42. I just went to your typical public schools, and my dad would take us to the movies every week, or he'd buy scalped tickets to San Antonio Spurs games. I remember I was four or five years old and my parents, who were very young, took us to see The Police in Austin, and Iggy Pop opened.

Pedro Pascal

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#43. 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.

Blaise Pascal

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#44. We are not going to confine women to the home, cover their heads, lengthen their skirts, or beat up gay people, prohibit alcohol, censure film, theater, and literature, and codify tolerance in order to respect the overly sensitive whims of a few sanctimonious persons.

Pascal Bruckner

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

Blaise Pascal

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#46. 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.

Blaise Pascal

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#47. Elizabeth scowled, feeling like a nobody, a nothing. She felt like her entire self had been made worthless. She could change her interests, but she couldn't change her looks. She'd never be six feet tall. She'd never look like a supermodel.

Francine Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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#50. Nature compensates for its mistakes.

Francine Pascal

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#51. 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.

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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#53. 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.

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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#56. 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

Blaise Pascal

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#57. She needed to get out of there. Her brains, thankfully, were still safely in her skull, but her emotions were splattered on the pavement.

Francine Pascal

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

James Joyce

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

Blaise Pascal

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#60. 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.

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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#63. To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

Pascal Mercier

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#64. 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

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#65. 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.

Blaise Pascal

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#66. Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace.

Pascal Mercier

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#67. 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.

Blaise Pascal

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#68. 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.

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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#71. 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.

Blaise Pascal

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#72. 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.

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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#74. 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.

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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#77. 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.

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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#79. Bob grinned. 'Wear that white swimsuit you bought last week, OK?' he said. 'I want all the other guys to wish you were their girlfriend.'
Sara felt vaguely uncomfortable, but she ignored the sensation. Bob just wanted her to look her best, she figured. There was nothing wrong with that.

Francine Pascal

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#80. The acting training in school was great, but it was mostly fun being young and in New York. Because my upbringing was so transient, New York ended up being my home. I've been living in New York longer than I have anywhere else in my life.

Pedro Pascal

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#81. 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.

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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#85. Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called the vacuum which God left behind.

Billy Graham

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#86. 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.

Blaise Pascal

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#87. She'll probably have all the work made up and a dozen stories written for The Oracle before I finish that one stupid book report on Moby Dick. I mean, Todd, who really cares about whales?'
Todd did, but he let the comment slide by.

Francine Pascal

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#88. To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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#90. Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.1 Pascal

David Eagleman

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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#93. What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.

Eric Hoffer

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#94. 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.

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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#96. 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.

Blaise Pascal

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#97. 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.

Blaise Pascal

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#98. It probably all boils down to three magic words: I don't care. And nobody can make me.

Francine Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

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#100. 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.

Blaise Pascal

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