Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
Quote by Blaise Pascal about man
Quotes by Blaise Pascal, page 4
129 quotes by Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal - french mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher
Was born on 19 jun 1623.
Died on 19 aug 1662, at 39 years old.
Died on 19 aug 1662, at 39 years old.
Origin country: France
Men despise religion, they hate it and fear it is true.
Quote by Blaise Pascal about man, hate, religion, fear
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
Quote by Blaise Pascal about man
Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.
Quote by Blaise Pascal about man, conscience
Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
Quote by Blaise Pascal about man, imagination, heart, being
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Quote by Blaise Pascal about nature, infinite
Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics, if all were so, they would be wrong.
Quote by Blaise Pascal about bad, nothing
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
Quote by Blaise Pascal about truth, rest, nothing
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
Quote by Blaise Pascal about opinion, rest, affair, nothing, being, man
One must know oneself, if serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
Quote by Blaise Pascal about life, rules, nothing
Our nature consists in motion, complete rest is death.
Quote by Blaise Pascal about nature, rest, death
Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
Quote by Blaise Pascal about numbers, body, soul, nature, nothing, time
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
Quote by Blaise Pascal about people, mind
People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Quote by Blaise Pascal about people
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Quote by Blaise Pascal about mind
That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
Quote by Blaise Pascal about god, miracle, things, love
