Blaise Pascal Quotes

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
Blaise Pascal

Ignorance, Present, Cause

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
Blaise Pascal

Silence, Eternal, Infinite

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
Blaise Pascal

Men, Find, Between

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
Blaise Pascal

End, Play, Last

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Blaise Pascal

Nature, Ocean, Movement

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.
Blaise Pascal

Place, Speak, Write

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
Blaise Pascal

Through, Thought, Universe

Vanity is but the surface.
Blaise Pascal

Vanity, Surface

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

Time, Knowledge, Science

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.
Blaise Pascal

Heart, Wanting, Consult

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
Blaise Pascal

End, Within, Driven

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

Force, Actions, Source

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
Blaise Pascal

Reason, Enthusiasm, Tempered

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
Blaise Pascal

Evil, Easy, Infinite

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
Blaise Pascal

Faith, Seem, Truths

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
Blaise Pascal

Religion, Sea, Act

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
Blaise Pascal

Love, Mind, True

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
Blaise Pascal

Truth, Justice, Touch

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
Blaise Pascal

Men, Heart, Often

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
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Nature, Time, Nothing

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.
Blaise Pascal

Reason, Far, Fools

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
Blaise Pascal

Great, Death, Fame

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
Blaise Pascal

God, Justice, Nothing

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
Blaise Pascal

Love, God, Knowledge

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.
Blaise Pascal

Nothing, Reason, Last

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: June 19, 1623

Died: August 19, 1662

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