Blaise Pascal Quotes

“The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:love heart reason

“This je ne sais quoi, so small an object that we cannot recognise it, agitates a whole country, princes, armies, the entire world. Cleopatra's nose: had it been shorter, the whole aspect of the world would have been altered.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:love beauty war

“One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:life truth

“The charm of fame is so great, that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:death vanity

“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, Pensées

topic:death happiness misery

“All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:happiness way

“When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is of advantage that there should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the progress of diseases, etc.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:truth

“Nothing gives certainty but truth; nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:truth

“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:truth knowledge

“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the want of contradiction a sign of truth.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:truth contradiction

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