Blaise Pascal Quotes
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If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
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Eloquence is the painting of thought.
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The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.
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Let each of us examine his thoughts.
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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
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It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him.
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Imagination decides everything.
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Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.
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For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.
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Le moi est ha|«s sable. The self is hateful.
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Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.
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We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.
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Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.
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Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.
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Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.
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The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.
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Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.
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It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.
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Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.
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Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it.
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What amazes me most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.
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How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.
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Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
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Little things console us because little things afflict us.