Blaise Pascal Quotes

“When we see a natural style, we are astonished and delighted; for we expected to see an author, and we find a man.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:man

“What a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, imbecile worm of the earth; depositary of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error; the pride and refuse of the...”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:man pride contradiction

“If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:man

“Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:war killing right

“The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:virtue

“lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:humanity action

“We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:thought talking

“The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be miserable.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:greatness misery

“The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:pleasure vanity

“There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:light sight

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