Blaise Pascal Quotes
A French mathematician, physicist and theologian.
(1623 - 1662)
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A jester, a bad character.
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A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is true that it is misery indeed to know one's self to be miserable; but then it is greatness also. In this way all man's miseries go to prove his greatness. They are the miseries of a mighty potentate, of a dethroned monarch.
[Misery]
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A trifle consoles us because a trifle upsets us.
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A truly worthy man should avoid naming himself; Christian piety annihilates the worldly me; worldly civility hides and suppresses it.
[Praise]
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All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
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All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.
[Unhappiness]
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All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they aim at the same end.
[Happiness]
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All men naturally hate one another. I hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
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All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
[Able]
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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
[Instincts]
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All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.
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Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us, and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave.
[Amusements]
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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.
[Able]
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As we are always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.
[The Present]
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Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
[Atheism]
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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
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Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
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Brave deeds are most estimable when hidden.
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