67 result(s) for Blaise Pascal Quotes.
"The present is never our goal. The past and present are our means, the future alone is our goal."
"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't."
"Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game."
"Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries, yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries."
"A trifle consoles us because a trifle upsets us."
"The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people find no difference between men."
"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed."
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"Faith is different from proof; the one is human, the other is a gift from God."
"We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end."
"I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise."
"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."
"Man's greatness lies in his power of thought."
"Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back."
"Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?"
"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world."
"The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy."
"In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest."
"We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything."
"We must make war on the errors and force them into the light, or else they will make war on us."
"The greatest miracle of love is that it cures a selfish heart."
"Contradiction is a bad sign of truth."
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"The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing."
"To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher."
"We know the truth not only by the reason, but also by the heart."
"Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death."
"So it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to apply it well."
"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
"The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it."
"Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder."
"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."
"In faith, there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't."
"The heart has reasons that reason does not understand."
"People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others."
"We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves."
"Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just."
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"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."
"There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe themselves sinners; the rest, sinners, who believe themselves righteous."
"The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men."
"The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end."
"We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others."
"We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart."
"Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary."
"Imagination decides everything."
"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed."
"It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants."
"We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it."
"We are so presumptuous that we would wish to be known by all the world, even by people who will come after, when we shall be no more."
"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing."
"We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart."
"Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed."
"Words differently arranged have a different meaning and meanings differently arranged have different effects."
"The last act is bloody, however fine the rest of the play. They throw earth over your head and it is finished forever."
"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."
"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth."
"The present is never our end. The past and present are our means, the future alone our end."
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
"Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself."
"People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive."
"The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have explored the mysteries of the truth without any hindrance."
"Kind words do not cost much; yet they accomplish much."
"In every pleasure there is an element of pain, every sweetness has a trace of bitterness, and every light a bit of darkness."
"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone."
"You always admire what you really don't understand."
"If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future."
"It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory."
"True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment makes light of the morality of the intellect."
"Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere."
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