Quotes by Blaise Pascal, page 6

Blaise Pascal - french mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher

Was born on 19 jun 1623.
Died on 19 aug 1662, at 39 years old.

Origin country: France

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me, my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about opinion, weather, prosperity, day

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about man

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about people, heart, god

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about god, heart, things, man

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom, through thought I comprehend the world.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about univers, atoms, thinking, world

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to...

Quote by Blaise Pascal about things, man

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about time, people, change

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about philosophy, time

Too much and too little wine, give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about opinion, wine, truth

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.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about bad

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about truth, lie, love

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience

Quote by Blaise Pascal about things, instinct, experience, nature, man

Vanity is but the surface.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about proudness, vanity

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.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about science, morality, ignorance, knowledge, proudness, vanity, time

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction, we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about human imperfections, lie

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.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about love, moment, man

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about truth, reason, heart

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.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about pleasure, security, faith, moral

We never love a person, but only qualities.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about love, people