Men Quotes by Blaise Pascal

Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

Kind words produce their images on men's souls.

— Blaise Pascal

The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.

— Blaise Pascal

Man governs himself more by impulse than reason

— Blaise Pascal

Man is neither angel nor beast.

— Blaise Pascal

How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!

— Blaise Pascal

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

— Blaise Pascal

Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.

— Blaise Pascal

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

— Blaise Pascal

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

— Blaise Pascal

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

— Blaise Pascal

Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.

— Blaise Pascal

All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.

— Blaise Pascal

Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to…

— Blaise Pascal

We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be…

— Blaise Pascal

Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks…

— Blaise Pascal

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their…

— 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

In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference…

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live…

— Blaise Pascal

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

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For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point…

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

En un mot, l'homme conna|"t qu'il est mise rable: il est donc mise rable, puisqu'il l'est; mais il est bien grand, puisqu'il…

— Blaise Pascal

All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of…

— Blaise Pascal

Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the…

— Blaise Pascal

When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves…

— Blaise Pascal

“One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both…

— 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

I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate…

— Blaise Pascal

“Nobody is publicly accepted as an expert on poetry unless he displays the sign of poet, mathematician, etc., but universal men want…

— 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

Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.

— Blaise Pascal

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

— Blaise Pascal

(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.

— Blaise Pascal

If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.

— Blaise Pascal