Blaise Pascal Quotes
- If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the…
- Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
- Vanity is but the surface.
- You always admire what you really don't understand.
- Imagination decides everything.
- That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
- Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
- We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
- Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be…
- Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
- Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
- We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
- Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
- The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
- People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
- The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
- It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
- Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
- If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
- Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.