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Blaise Pascal Quotes

Total quotes: 15
“You always admire what you really don’t understand.”
— Blaise Pascal, Blaise Pascal: Quotes & Facts
Tagged: admiration, Irony, Understanding
“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
— Blaise Pascal, Blaise Pascal: Quotes & Facts
Tagged: kindness, Kind, Kind words
“Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.”
— Blaise Pascal, The Art of Persuasion
Tagged: Nature, familiar, Common
“As soon as the soul has been made to perceive that a thing can conduct it to that which it loves supremely, it must inevitably embrace it with joy.”
— Blaise Pascal, The Art of Persuasion
Tagged: Soul, Perception, Embrace The Unknown
“Man is neither angel nor beast, and unhappily whoever wants to act the angel, acts the beast.”
— Blaise Pascal, Pensées and Other Writings
Tagged: Life Under The Shadow of Idealism, Ideals, The Impossibility of Perfection, Don't Judge, The Plank In Your Own Eye
“It is not among extraordinary and fantastic things that excellence is to be found, of whatever kind it may be. We rise to attain it and become removed from it: it is oftenest necessary to stoop for it.”
— Blaise Pascal, The Art of Persuasion
Tagged: Extraordinary, excellence, Attaining goals
“Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.”
— Blaise Pascal, Pensees
Tagged: Curiosity, Vanity, Pride
“People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.”
— Blaise Pascal, L'art de persuader
Tagged: Beliefs, Attractiveness, Persuasion, Subjectivity
“It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.”
— Blaise Pascal, On the Spirit of Geometry
Tagged: sickness, Pride, Truth
“I strive only to know my nothingness.”
— Blaise Pascal, Pensees(Penguin Classics)
Tagged: strive, know, Nothingness
“Little things comfort us because little things distress us.”
— Blaise Pascal, Pensees
Tagged: little things, Comfort, Distress
“To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”
— Blaise Pascal, Pensees
Tagged: Philosophy, True Philosopher
“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 will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.”
— Blaise Pascal, Pensees
Tagged: Reason, Faith, Religion
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
— Blaise Pascal, Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Dating, romance, inspiration, Sex, reevaluate
“It is not certain that everything is uncertain.”
— Blaise Pascal, Pensees
Tagged: Uncertainty, unknown, Paradox, Risk
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