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Truth Quotes by Blaise Pascal

75 Truth quotes by Blaise Pascal

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Blaise Pascal wrestles with truth and uncertainty in short, thoughtful thoughts. He calls imagination a source of error and says common misconceptions can guide minds. He also notes that discovering a deep truth can enlarge the soul forever. He reflects on loneliness, saying we must act as if we are alone.

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Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

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We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

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Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

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There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.

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Look for the truth, it wants to be found…

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We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.

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We know the truth, not only be the reason, but also be the heart.

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“We desire truth and find within ourselves only uncertainty.”

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Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind…

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Justice and truth are too suchsubtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

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No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore…

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We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we…

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We make an idol of truth itself, for truth apart from charity is not God, but his image and an idol that…

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

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“Eloquence.— We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true.”

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The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.

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[Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some…

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Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish…

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What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy!…

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The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses…

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There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change…

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Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them. The saints…

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“ Two contrary reasons . We must begin with that, otherwise we cannot understand anything and everything is heretical. And even at…

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“For, not seeing the whole truth, they could not attain to perfect virtue. Some considering nature as incorrupt, others as incurable, they…

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That queen, of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not always deceive. She would…

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According to the doctrine of chance, you ought to put yourself to the trouble of searching for the truth; for if you…

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“It is absurd of us to rely on the company of our fellows, as wretched and helpless as we are; they will…

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Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview.…

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“We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not…

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When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was…

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One-half of life is admitted by us to be passed in sleep, in which, however, it may appear otherwise, we have no…

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When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines…

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“It would therefore be a good thing for us to obey laws and customs because they are laws: to know that there…

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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

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Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.

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It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.

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Nothing gives us rest but the sincere search for truth

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There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs.

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We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the…

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There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.

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When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

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The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of…

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.

We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and…

Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

“There is no denying it; one must admit that there is something astonishing about Christianity. 'It is because you were born in it,' they…

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the…