Blaise Pascal Quotes
1623–1662 France
Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, logician, physicist and theologian.
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Also known as: Pascal, Blaise
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Human things must be known to be loved; but Divine things must be loved to be known.
Thus we never live, but we hope to live; and always disposing ourselves to be happy, it is inevitable that we never become so.
Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ, by commanding his followers to lay down their own lives.
We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.
If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.
Thoughts (1623)
Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.
Pensées (1669)
How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.
Pensées (1669)
Happiness is neither within us nor without us, it is the union of ourselves with God.
Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself.
Pensées (1669)
Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
Pensées (1669)
The stream is always purer at its source.
To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
The incredulous are the most credulous. They believe the miracles of Vespasian that they may not believe those of Moses.
Pensèes (1669)
He adopts the opinion of others like a monk in the Sorbonne.
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
The arithmetical machine produces effects which approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing which would enable us to attribute will to it, as to the animals.
The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.
I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter.
Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference...