Blaise Pascal Quotes - Page 19

Quotes about:

Achievement Age Angels Animals Anxiety Appreciation Art

True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which has no rules, makes light of the morality of the intellect.... To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Blaise Pascal

Philosophy, Light, Morality

Blaise Pascal (2009). “Thoughts”, p.16, Lulu.com

4 Copy quote
E? loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like a tyrant or king.

Blaise Pascal

Kings, Tyrants, Roi

5 Copy quote
What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy

Blaise Pascal

Inspiration, Men, Monsters

Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.133, Letcetera Publishing

74 Copy quote
Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better.

Blaise Pascal

Math, Play, Tennis

Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.14, Cosimo, Inc.

6 Copy quote
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves; seek happiness in amusement." And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

Blaise Pascal

Amusement, Illness, Retiring

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.130, Courier Corporation

4 Copy quote
By thought I embrace the universe.

Blaise Pascal

Embrace, Universe

Blaise Pascal (1947). “Pascal's pensées”

4 Copy quote
There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs.

Blaise Pascal

Truth, Darkness, Would Be

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.263, Simon and Schuster

4 Copy quote
Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.

Blaise Pascal

Giving, Dignity

Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.12, Courier Corporation

4 Copy quote
I should not be a Christian but for the miracles.

Blaise Pascal

Christian, Miracle, Should

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

4 Copy quote
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.

Blaise Pascal

Fog, Weather, Connections

Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.34, Courier Corporation

18 Copy quote
Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances.

Blaise Pascal

Appearance, Reason, Inconstancy

Blaise Pascal (2014). “Selected "Pensees" and Provincial Letters/Pensees et Provinciales choisies: A Dual-Language Book”, p.265, Courier Corporation

4 Copy quote
All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.

Blaise Pascal

Modern Life, Able, Trouble

4 Copy quote
An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.

Blaise Pascal

Causes, Pleading, Wells

Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

4 Copy quote
Je ne crois que les histoires dont les te moins se feraient e gorger. I only believe in histories told by witnesses who would have had their throats slit.

Blaise Pascal

Believe, Witness, Throat

4 Copy quote
Knowledge has two extremes. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that reached by great minds, who, having run through all that men can know, find they know nothing, and come back again to that same natural ignorance from which they set out; this is a learned ignorance which is conscious of itself.

Blaise Pascal

Running, Ignorance, Knowledge

5 Copy quote
All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.

Blaise Pascal

Nature, World, Visible

Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1861). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.158

4 Copy quote
Dans une grande a" me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat.

Blaise Pascal

Soul, Great Souls

4 Copy quote
Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force.

Blaise Pascal

Law, Break Through, Choices

4 Copy quote
Love has no age as it is always renewing itself.

Blaise Pascal

Anniversary, Age, Wedding Anniversary

7 Copy quote
If you believe in God you are at no disadvantage in this life, and at considerable advantage in the next. If you do not believe, but find in the next that there was a next, you are most unfortunate!

Blaise Pascal

Spiritual, Believe, Next

5 Copy quote
From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is because a cripple sees that we go right, and a distorted mind says that it is we who go astray. But for that we should have more pity and less rage.

Blaise Pascal

Should Have, Mind, Doe

11 Copy quote
I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great? Guess.

Blaise Pascal

Work, Distance, Math

4 Copy quote
The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.

Blaise Pascal

Fall, Perfect, Reason

4 Copy quote
Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Blaise Pascal

Men, Lost Friendship, Lost Everything

4 Copy quote
To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Blaise Pascal

Happiness, Greatest Love, Amusement

Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.266

7 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Gottfried Leibniz

Charles Babbage

Pierre de Fermat

Blaise Pascal

Follow

Born: June 19, 1623
Died: August 19, 1662
Occupation: Mathematician
Cite this Page: Citation

Popular Topics