Blaise Pascal Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.
We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.
There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature ... and the thing which pleases us.
It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.
Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.
How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
Console-toi, tu ne me chercherais pas si tu ne m'avais trouve . Comfort yourself.You would not seek me if you had not found me.
Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.
It is natural for the mind to believe, and for the will to love; [47] so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.
This dog is mine," said those poor children; "that is my place in the sun." Here is the beginning and the image of the usurpation of all the earth.
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.
We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.
There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition
The only religion which is against nature, against common sense and against our pleasures is the only one which has always existed.
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.
Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.
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
We run carelessly over the precipice after having put something in front of us to prevent us seeing it.
To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.
We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.
Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.
He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.
That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides that which we love.
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.
Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth.
If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
When we come across a natural style, we are surprised and delighted; for we expected an author, and we
find a man.
find a man.