Blaise Pascal Quotes

539 quotes in 4043 categories

• Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth.
• Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with…
• Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so…
• [I feel] engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence…
• The best defense against logic is ignorance.
• When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
• What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy
• The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.
• The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves;…
• Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth…
• If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this,…
• Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.
• It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.
• Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.
• When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for…
• When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was…
• What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our…
• Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.
• Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.
• When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

Browse Blaise Pascal Quotes by Category