Quotes about Man by Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

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All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

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Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him.

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I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought, he would be a stone or a brute.

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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room

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If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

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

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Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

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Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature, as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

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Men blaspheme what they do not know.

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Men despise religion, they hate it and fear it is true.

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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

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Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.

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Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

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The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

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The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

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The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

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