Quotes by Blaise Pascal

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The heart has its reasons which reason knows not. — Blaise Pascal
I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter. — Blaise Pascal
To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize. — Blaise Pascal
When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himsel — Blaise Pascal
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed. — Blaise Pascal
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. — Blaise Pascal
It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth. — Blaise Pascal
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright — Blaise Pascal
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. — Blaise Pascal
Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. — Blaise Pascal
Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still st — Blaise Pascal
To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man. — Blaise Pascal
Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. — Blaise Pascal
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back — Blaise Pascal
There is nothing we can now call our own, for what we call so is the effect of art; crimes are made by decrees of the se — Blaise Pascal
When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing. — Blaise Pascal
I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise. — Blaise Pascal
Knowlege of God without knowledge of man's wretchedness leads to pride. Knowledge of man's wretchedness without knowledg — Blaise Pascal
Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature. — Blaise Pascal
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. — Blaise Pascal