Doe Quotes by Blaise Pascal

A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

— Blaise Pascal

I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find…

— Blaise Pascal

The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.

— Blaise Pascal

Everything that is incomprehensible does not cease to exist.

— Blaise Pascal

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

— Blaise Pascal

Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.

— Blaise Pascal

He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.

— Blaise Pascal

When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.

— Blaise Pascal

How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight,…

— Blaise Pascal

We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one…

— Blaise Pascal

If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose…

— Blaise Pascal

We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the…

— Blaise Pascal

The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would…

— Blaise Pascal

There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of…

— Blaise Pascal

For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this…

— Blaise Pascal

Man's greatness is great in that he knows himself wretched. A tree does not know itself wretched. It is then being wretched…

— Blaise Pascal

Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence…

— Blaise Pascal

Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from…

— Blaise Pascal

What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke that he…

— Blaise Pascal

The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest…

— Blaise Pascal

If a man loves a woman for her beauty, does he love her? No; for the smallpox, which destroys her beauty without…

— Blaise Pascal

The man who knows God but does not know his own misery, becomes proud. The man who knows his own misery but…

— Blaise Pascal

Fuller believed human societies would soon rely mainly on renewable sources of energy, such as solar- and wind-derived electricity,. envisioned an age…

— Blaise Pascal

There is a lot of difference between tempting and leading into error. God tempts but does not lead into error. To tempt…

— Blaise Pascal

All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art…

— Blaise Pascal

We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers…

— Blaise Pascal

When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left…

— Blaise Pascal

Everything that is incomprehensible does not, however, cease to exist.

— Blaise Pascal

Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence…

— Blaise Pascal

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not…

— Blaise Pascal

The Christian's God does not consist merely of a God who is the author of mathematical truths and the order of elements...…

— Blaise Pascal

We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all…

— Blaise Pascal

No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline…

— Blaise Pascal

The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which…

— Blaise Pascal

All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man…

— Blaise Pascal

Man is so great that his greatness appears even in the consciousness of his misery. A tree does not know itself to…

— Blaise Pascal

I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same…

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

The Christian's God does not merely consist of a God who is the Author of mathematical truths and the order of the…

— Blaise Pascal