Blaise Pascal Quotes
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If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy.
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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
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No animal admires another animal.
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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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La chose la plus importante a' toute la vie est le choix du me tier: le hasard en dispose. The most important thing in life is to choose a profession: chance arranges for that.
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If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.
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You gave me health that I might serve you; and so often I failed to use my good health in your service. Now you send me sickness in order to correct me Grant that, having ignored the things of spirit when my body was vigorous, I may now enjoy spiritual sweetness while my body groans with pain.
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Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.
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Imagination decides everything.
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Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it.
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All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.
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Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.
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It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away.
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All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.
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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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Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.
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Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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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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Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter.
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Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.
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If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.
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Le moi est ha|«s sable. The self is hateful.