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Quotes - Pascal


Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Blaise Pascal

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

Blaise Pascal

Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.

Blaise Pascal

Thus we never live, but we hope to live; and always disposing ourselves to be happy, it is inevitable that we never become so.

Blaise Pascal

If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.

Blaise Pascal

The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.

Blaise Pascal

Rivers are highways that move on, and bear us whither we wish to go.

Blaise Pascal

What a chimera, then, is man! what a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! A judge of all things, feeble worm of the earth, depositary of the truth, cloaca of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe!

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?

Blaise Pascal

The heart has its reasons that the mind knows nothing of.

Blaise Pascal

Wisdom sends us back to our childhood.

Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Pascal

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance.

Blaise Pascal

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

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Blaise Pascal

A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

Blaise Pascal

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe themselves sinners; the sinners who believe themselves righteous.

Blaise Pascal

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

Blaise Pascal

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

Blaise Pascal

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