Blaise Pascal Quotes

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
Men blaspheme what they do not know.
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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.
Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Blaise Pascal
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19 June, 1623
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19 August, 1662
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