Blaise Pascal Quotes

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• Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
• To understand is to forgive.
• To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
• All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to…
• When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with…
• We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.
• Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
• When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.
• Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on…
• Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.
• People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
• And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to…
• If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat…
• We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.
• Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.
• There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition
• Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
• If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion…
• Just as I do not know where I came from, so I do not know where I am going. All I know is that when…
• they do not know that they seek only the chase and not the quarry.

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