Time Quotes by Blaise Pascal

In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.

— Blaise Pascal

Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.

— Blaise Pascal

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future.

— Blaise Pascal

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

— Blaise Pascal

“Please forgive the long letter; I didn’t have time to write a short one.”

— Blaise Pascal

If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.

— Blaise Pascal

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

— Blaise Pascal

Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment.

— Blaise Pascal

La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence,…

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In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects,…

— Blaise Pascal

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

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The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope…

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The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the…

— Blaise Pascal

“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter." ( Letter 16 , 1657)”

— Blaise Pascal

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and…

— Blaise Pascal

“In every action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others whom it affects,…

— Blaise Pascal

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it…

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from…

— Blaise Pascal

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

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Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of…

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“He no longer loves the person whom he loved ten years ago. I quite believe it. She is no longer the same,…

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“I do not admire the excess of a virtue as of valour, except I see at the same time the excess of…

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We do not rest satisfied with the present… So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours…

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

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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…

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Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never…

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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…

— 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

“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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I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

— Blaise Pascal

“Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare; it is the pleasure even of kings.”

— Blaise Pascal

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

— Blaise Pascal

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

— Blaise Pascal

I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest…

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The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But…

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The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never…

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The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such…

— Blaise Pascal