Blaise Pascal Quotes

“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:men madness

“When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:understanding reading

“The property of power is to protect.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:power

“Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:friendship

“if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:friendship others

“There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:beauty pleasure weakness

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:religion evil

“If we submit everything to reason, our religion will have no mysterious and supernatural element. If we offend the principles of reason, our religion will be absurd and ridiculous.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:religion reason mystery

“Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:words meaning

“Evil is easy, and has infinite forms; good is almost unique.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:good evil

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