Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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
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Author Details:
Type:
Philosopher Quotes
Category:
French Philosopher Quotes
Date of Birth:
June 19, 1623
Date of Death:
August 19, 1662
Nationality:
French
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Related Authors:
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Jean-Paul Sartre
Albert Camus
Michel de Montaigne
Peter Abelard
Gaston Bachelard
Simone Weil
Charles de Montesquieu
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Select Blaise Pascal Quotations:
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
Blaise Pascal
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise Pascal
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
Blaise Pascal
The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.
Blaise Pascal
Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
Blaise Pascal
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Blaise Pascal
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
Blaise Pascal
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Audience,
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Audience,
Badly,
Draw,
More,
Place,
Some,
Speak,
Than,
Their,
Them,
Think,
Warm,
Warmth,
Well,
Without,
Write
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All Blaise Pascal Quotations:
A trifle consoles us, for a...
All human evil comes from a...
All men's miseries derive from not...
All of our reasoning ends in...
As men are not able to...
Atheism shows strength of mind, but...
Belief is a wise wager. Granted...
Between us and heaven or hell...
Can anything be stupider than that...
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and...
Concupiscence and force are the source...
Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned...
Contradiction is not a sign of...
Custom is our nature. What are...
Desire and force between them are...
Do you wish people to think...
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
Even those who write against fame...
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
Faith certainly tells us what the...
Faith embraces many truths which seem...
Faith indeed tells what the senses...
Faith is different from proof; the...
Few friendships would survive if each...
Habit is a second nature that...
Happiness is neither without us nor...
He that takes truth for his...
Human beings must be known to...
I can well conceive a man...
I have discovered that all human...
I have made this letter longer...
I maintain that, if everyone knew...
If all men knew what others...
If man made himself the first...
If our condition were truly happy...
If we examine our thoughts, we...
If we must not act save...
If you gain, you gain all...
Imagination decides everything.
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty...
In each action we must look...
In faith there is enough light...
It is good to be tired...
It is incomprehensible that God should...
It is natural for the mind...
It is not good to be...
It is the fight alone that...
It is the heart which perceives...
Jesus is the God whom we...
Justice and power must be brought...
Justice and truth are too such...
Justice is what is established; and...
Justice without force is powerless; force without...
Kind words do not cost much...
Law, without force, is impotent.
Little things console us because little...
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
Man is but a reed, the...
Man's greatness lies in his power...
Man's true nature being lost, everything...
Men are so necessarily mad, that...
Men blaspheme what they do not know.
Men despise religion. They hate it...
Men never do evil so completely...
Men often take their imagination for...
Nature is an infinite sphere of...
Noble deeds that are concealed are...
Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the...
Nothing gives rest but the sincere...
Nothing is as approved as mediocrity...
Nothing is so intolerable to man...
One must know oneself. If this...
Our nature consists in motion; complete...
Our soul is cast into a...
People are generally better persuaded by...
People are usually more convinced by...
Reason commands us far more imperiously...
Since we cannot know all that...
Small minds are concerned with the...
That we must love one God...
The charm of fame is so...
The consciousness of the falsity of...
The eternal silence of these infinite...
The finite is annihilated in the...
The gospel to me is simply irresistible.
The greater intellect one has, the...
The greatness of man is great...
The heart has its reasons of...
The heart has reasons that reason...
The immortality of the soul is...
The knowledge of God is very...
The last act is bloody, however...
The last proceeding of reason is...
The least movement is of importance...
The only shame is to have none.
The present letter is a very...
The self is hateful.
The sensitivity of men to small...
The strength of a man's virtue...
The struggle alone pleases us, not...
The supreme function of reason is...
The weather and my mood have...
There are only two kinds of...
There are some who speak well...
There are two kinds of people...
There is a God shaped vacuum...
Through space the universe encompasses and...
Thus so wretched is man that...
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for...
To have no time for philosophy...
Too much and too little wine...
Truly it is an evil to...
Truth is so obscure in these...
Two things control men's nature, instinct and...
Vanity is but the surface.
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical...
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we...
We conceal it from ourselves in...
We know the truth, not only...
We like security: we like the...
We never love a person, but...
We only consult the ear because...
We run carelessly to the precipice...
We sail within a vast sphere...
We view things not only from...
When we are in love we...
When we see a natural style...
Words differently arranged have a different meaning...
You always admire what you really...
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