Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.
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Le moi est ha|«s sable. The self is hateful.
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We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
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Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.
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The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.
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Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
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No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.
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Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.
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Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.
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All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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By thought I embrace the universe.
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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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Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
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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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I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in believing it true.
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Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live not a moment exempt from its influence.
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What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher. Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer?
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The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.
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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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The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
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True eloquence scorns eloquence.
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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.