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Quotes - Pascal


I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.

Blaise Pascal

Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.

Blaise Pascal

We like to be deceived.

Blaise Pascal

The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Blaise Pascal

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Blaise Pascal

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force.

Blaise Pascal

The heart has its reasons that reason does not know. -Pascal.

Antonio Pascal

Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.

Blaise Pascal

man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.

Blaise Pascal

A jester, a bad character. [Fr., Diseur de bon mots, mauvais caractere.]

Blaise Pascal

The last thing one knows is what to put first.

William Pascal

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect.

Blaise Pascal

It is not good to have too much liberty. It is not good to have all one wants.

Blaise Pascal

We conceal it from ourselves in vain-- we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

Blaise Pascal

The heart has its reasons which the mind cannot comprehend.

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

Blaise Pascal

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

Blaise Pascal

Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.

Blaise Pascal

It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.

Blaise Pascal

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