Pensées Quotes

“How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but that a fool does? Because a cripple recognises that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:stupidity anger

“Nature confutes the sceptics, and reason confutes the dogmatists.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:nature reason

“Those honour Nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything, even on theology.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:nature teaching

“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:nature thought weakness

“The whole visible world is only an imperceptible atom in the ample bosom of nature. No idea approaches it.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:nature greatness

“Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them, and to be unwilling to recognise them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:evil

“The last proceeding of reason is to recognise that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:reason humility

“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe themselves sinners; the rest, sinners, who believe themselves righteous.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:belief virtue sin

“Let each one examine his thoughts, and he will find them all occupied with the past and the future.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:future past

“Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:passion business

1
2
3
4
5
...
7

© Copyright 2024 QuoteImageAI