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title: "38 Time Quotes By Blaise Pascal"
description: "Time quotes by Blaise Pascal explore science, morality, and how we view the present versus the future."
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> [I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/i-have-made-this-letter-longer-than-usual-only-because-i-have-not-had/)

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> [To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/to-have-no-time-for-philosophy-is-to-be-a-true-philosopher/)

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> [Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/losses-are-comparative-imagination-only-makes-them-of-any-moment/)

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> [“Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare; it is the pleasure even of kings.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/men-spend-their-time-in-following-a-ball-or-a-hare-it-is-the-pleasure/)

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> [I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/i-have-only-made-this-letter-longer-because-i-have-not-had-the-time-2/)

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> [In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/in-difficult-times-carry-something-beautiful-in-your-heart/)

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> [Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/now-if-the-passions-had-no-hold-on-us-a-week-and-a-hundred-years/)

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> [If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/if-we-examine-our-thoughts-we-shall-find-them-always-occupied-with-2/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/the-present-is-never-the-mark-of-our-designs-we-use-both-past-and/)

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> [“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter." ( Letter 16 , 1657)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/i-have-only-made-this-letter-longer-because-i-have-not-had-the-time/)

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> [Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/our-soul-is-cast-into-a-body-where-it-finds-number-time-dimension/)

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> [“In every action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others whom it affects,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/in-every-action-we-must-look-beyond-the-action-at-our-past-present/)

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> [Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/truth-is-so-obscure-in-these-times-and-falsehood-so-established-that/)

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> [La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/la-vraie-e-loquence-se-moque-de-l-e-loquence-la-vraie-morale-se-moque/)

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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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/in-each-action-we-must-look-beyond-the-action-at-our-past-present-and/)

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> [We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/we-do-not-worry-about-being-respected-in-towns-through-which-we-pass/)

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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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/he-no-longer-loves-the-person-whom-he-loved-ten-years-ago-i-quite/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/i-do-not-admire-the-excess-of-a-virtue-as-of-valour-except-i-see-at/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/we-do-not-rest-satisfied-with-the-present-so-imprudent-we-are-that-we/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/the-vanity-of-the-sciences-physical-science-will-not-console-me-for/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/the-present-is-never-our-goal-the-past-and-present-are-our-means-the/)

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> [I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/i-am-in-the-utmost-perplexity-yand-have-wished-a-hundred-times-that/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/the-principles-of-pleasure-are-not-firm-and-stable-they-are-different/)

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> [We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/we-think-very-little-of-time-present-we-anticipate-the-future-as/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/let-each-of-us-examine-his-thoughts-he-will-find-them-wholly/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/we-never-keep-to-the-present-we-recall-the-past-we-anticipate-the-2/)

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> [I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/i-have-spent-much-time-in-the-study-of-the-abstract-sciences-but-the/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/anyone-who-does-not-see-the-vanity-of-the-world-is-very-vain-himself/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/for-after-all-what-is-man-in-nature-a-nothing-in-relation-to-infinity-2/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/we-never-keep-to-the-present-we-recall-the-past-we-anticipate-the/)

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> [If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/if-we-examine-our-thoughts-we-shall-find-them-always-occupied-with/)

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> [“Please forgive the long letter; I didn’t have time to write a short one.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/please-forgive-the-long-letter-i-didn-t-have-time-to-write-a-short-one/)

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> [If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/if-i-had-more-time-i-would-write-a-shorter-letter/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/the-past-and-present-are-only-our-means-the-future-is-always-our-end/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/when-i-consider-the-small-span-of-my-life-absorbed-in-the-eternity-of/)

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> [The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/the-secrets-of-nature-are-concealed-her-agency-is-perpetual-but-we-do/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/vanity-of-science-knowledge-of-physical-science-will-not-console-me/)

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> [For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/for-as-old-age-is-that-period-of-life-most-remote-from-infancy-who/)

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> [“Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/do-they-think-that-they-have-given-us-great-pleasure-by-telling-us/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/there-should-be-in-eloquence-that-which-is-pleasing-and-that-which-is/)

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> [The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/the-method-of-not-erring-is-sought-by-all-the-world-the-logicians/)

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> [When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/when-we-read-too-fast-or-too-slowly-we-understand-nothing/)

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> [Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/mahomet-established-a-religion-by-putting-his-enemies-to-death-jesus/)

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> [Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/reflect-on-death-as-in-jesus-christ-not-as-without-jesus-christ/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/the-stoics-say-retire-within-yourselves-it-is-there-you-will-find/)

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> [Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/happiness-can-be-found-neither-in-ourselves-nor-in-external-things/)

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> [Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/amusement-that-is-excessive-and-followed-only-for-its-own-sake/)

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> [Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/rivers-are-highways-that-move-on-and-bear-us-whither-we-wish-to-go/)

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> [We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/we-desire-truth-and-find-within-ourselves-only-uncertainty-we-seek/)

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> [Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/vanity-is-illustrated-in-the-cause-and-effect-of-love-as-in-the-case/)

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> [“There is no denying it; one must admit that there is something astonishing about Christianity. 'It is because you were born in it,' they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/there-is-no-denying-it-one-must-admit-that-there-is-something/)

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> [Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/imagination-is-the-deceptive-part-in-man-the-mistress-of-error-and/)

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> [The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/the-majority-is-the-best-way-because-it-is-visible-and-has-strength/)

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