Blaise Pascal Quotes

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, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
Blaise Pascal

Evil, Since, Full

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal

Evil, Human, Room

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
Blaise Pascal

Friend, Him, Few

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
Blaise Pascal

Future, Past, Thoughts

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.
Blaise Pascal

Good, Tired, True

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
Blaise Pascal

Made, Study, Whole

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
Blaise Pascal

Nature, Good, True

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
Blaise Pascal

Nothing, Whatever, Mediocrity

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
Blaise Pascal

Nature, Death, Rest

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 about it.
Blaise Pascal

Great, Feeling, Lost

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
Blaise Pascal

Nature, Men, Experience

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Blaise Pascal

Truth, Nor, Lack

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Blaise Pascal

Nature, Why, Afraid

Law, without force, is impotent.
Blaise Pascal

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Blaise Pascal

Religion, Men, Hate

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
Blaise Pascal

Everything, Cannot, Since

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal

Truth, Heart, Reason

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
Blaise Pascal

Different, Find, Eyes

You always admire what you really don't understand.
Blaise Pascal

Understand, Admire

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
Blaise Pascal

Business, Care, Nothing

Little things console us because little things afflict us.
Blaise Pascal

Console, Afflict

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
Blaise Pascal

Truth, Nothing, Rest

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
Blaise Pascal

Great, Greatness, Himself

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
Blaise Pascal

Truth, Him, Give

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
Blaise Pascal

Men, Another, Mad

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: June 19, 1623

Died: August 19, 1662

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