Life Quotes by Blaise Pascal

Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

— Blaise Pascal

When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.

— Blaise Pascal

There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man.

— Blaise Pascal

The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.

— Blaise Pascal

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

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All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.

— Blaise Pascal

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

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Sleep, you say, is the image of death; for my part I say that it is rather the image of life.

— Blaise Pascal

Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the…

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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…

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If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil…

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we…

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We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to…

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All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.

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The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.

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“Truth is not an object to be possessed; it is a living thing recognized, cultivated by the mind and heart.”

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Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such…

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

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It is certain that those who have the living faith in their hearts see at once that all existence is none other…

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Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us…

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Between us, and Hell or Heaven, there is only life between the two, which is the most fragile thing in the world.…

— Blaise Pascal

“We know the existence of the infinite without knowing its nature, because it too has extension but unlike us no limits. But…

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

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When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space…

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“I ask you neither for health nor for sickness, for life nor for death; but that you may dispose of my health…

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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…

— Blaise Pascal

“When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I…

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“When I consider the brief span of my life absorbed into the eternity which precedes and will succeed it— memoria hospitis unius…

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“We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if we found it too slow in…

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“If the foot had never realized it belonged to the body, & that there never was a body on which it depended,…

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“We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to live an…

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

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One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and…

— Blaise Pascal

We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves; we desire to live an imaginary life in the minds…

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“They prefer death to peace, others prefer death to war. Any opinion can be preferred to life, which it seems so natural…

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All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves…

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

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Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he…

— Blaise Pascal

One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all…

— Blaise Pascal

No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a…

— Blaise Pascal