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Blaise Pascal Quotes | Quotes said by Blaise Pascal

  • Blaise Pascal Quote #1

    All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

  • Blaise Pascal Quote #2

    All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.

  • Blaise Pascal Quote #3

    All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

  • Blaise Pascal Quote #4

    And if one loves me for my judgement, memory, he does not love me, for I can lose these qualities without losing myself. Where, then, is this Ego, if it be neither in the body nor in the soul? And how love the body or the soul, except for these qualities which do not constitute me, since they are perishable? For it is impossible and would be unjust to love the soul of a person in the abstract and whatever qualities might be therein. We never, then, love a person, but only qualities.
    Let us, then, jeer no more at those who are honoured on account of rank and office; for we love a person only on account of borrowed qualities.

  • Blaise Pascal Quote #5

    As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

  • Blaise Pascal Quote #6

    Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

  • Blaise Pascal Quote #7

    Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

  • Blaise Pascal Quote #8

    Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

  • Blaise Pascal Quote #9

    Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

  • Blaise Pascal Quote #10

    Ciascuno esamini i propri pensieri: li troverà sempre occupati dal passato e dall'avvenire. Non pensiamo quasi mai al presente, o se ci pensiamo, è solo per prenderne lume al fine di predisporre l'avvenire. Il presente non è mai il nostro fine: il passato o il presente sono i nostri mezzi; solo l'avvenire è il nostro fine. Così non viviamo mai, ma speriamo di vivere, e, preparandoci sempre ad essere felici, è inevitabile che non siamo mai tali.

  • Blaise Pascal Quote #11

    Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

  • Blaise Pascal Quote #12

    Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

  • Blaise Pascal Quote #13

    El amor no tiene edad; siempre está naciendo.

  • Blaise Pascal Quote #14

    Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

  • Blaise Pascal Quote #15

    Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

  • Blaise Pascal Quote #16

    Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

  • Blaise Pascal Quote #17

    Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

  • Blaise Pascal Quote #18

    Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

  • Blaise Pascal Quote #19

    Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

  • Blaise Pascal Quote #20

    Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

  • Blaise Pascal Quote #21

    Finally, let them recognise that there are two kinds of people one can call reasonable; those who serve God with all their heart because they know Him, and those who seek Him with all their heart because they do not know Him.

  • Blaise Pascal Quote #22

    Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.

  • Blaise Pascal Quote #23

    God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality.

  • Blaise Pascal Quote #24

    Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

  • Blaise Pascal Quote #25

    He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright

  • Blaise Pascal Quote #26

    He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

  • Blaise Pascal Quote #27

    Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

  • Blaise Pascal Quote #28

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

    (Letter 16, 1657)

  • Blaise Pascal Quote #29

    I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

  • Blaise Pascal Quote #30

    I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.

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