Find the best quotes, maxims and aphorisms of Blaise Pascal

Biography : French mathematician, physicist, writer and philosopher.
Born: 1623 - Died: 1662
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: France
France

Blaise Pascal - Quotes

All good maxims are in the world. We only need to apply them.
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The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not, than in those who know it.
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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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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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The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.
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The world is generally so restless, that men scarcely ever think of the present time, and the instant they are now actually living, but of those in which they are to live. So that we are always in a disposition to live in future, but never to live now.
Blaise Pascal - Letters to Mr and Mlle de Rouannez /

All our dignity consists, then, in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill.
Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
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Justice without power is inefficient; power without justice is tyranny.
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Eloquence is a painting of thought.
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Chance gives thoughts, and chance takes them away.
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Two extremes: to exclude reason, to admit reason only.
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reason

To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
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philosophy

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better.
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It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.
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We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
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Two things teach man about his whole nature: instinct and experience.
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In a great soul everything is great.
Blaise Pascal - Discourse on the Passion of Love /

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be miserable. A tree does not know itself to be miserable.
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Man is born for pleasure; he feels it; no other proof of it is needed.
Blaise Pascal - Discourse on the Passion of Love /

Put the world’s greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be: if there is a precipice below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail. Many could not even stand the thought of it without going pale and breaking into a sweat.
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Love or hate alters the face of justice.
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Justice

Cleopatra's nose: if it had been shorter the whole face of the earth would have been different.
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Truth endures forever.
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The least movement affects all nature; the entire sea changes because of a rock.
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The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
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Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he makes himself believe it.
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All man's misfortune consists in this one thing, his inability to remain quietly in one room.
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solitude

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