Quotes by Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

French mathematician, physicist and philosopher

Lived from: 1623 - 1662

Category: Philosophers | Scientists Country: FlagFrance

Born: 19 june 1623 Died: 19 august 1662

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  • To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
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  • Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
    Pensees (1669)
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  • 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 recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
    Pensees
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  • Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
    Pensees (1669)
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  • Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.
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  • Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
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  • We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
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  • We are so presumptuous that we would wish to be known by all the world, even by people who shall come after, when we shall be no more; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six neighbors delights and contents us.
    Pensees (1669)
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  • We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.
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  • We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
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  • We like to be deceived.
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  • We must learn our limits. We are all something but none of us are everything.
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  • We never live, but we hope to live.
    Original: Nous ne vivons jamais, mais nous espérons de vivre.
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  • We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.
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  • We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
    Pensees
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  • What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.
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  • When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours.
    Pensees (1669)
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  • When we are accustomed to use bad reasons for proving natural effects, we are not willing to receive good reasons when they are discovered.
    Pensees (1669)
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  • When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
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  • When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
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