Top 500 Blaise Pascal Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “Vanity is but the surface.”

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452. “There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.”

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453. “The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.”

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454. “No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.”

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455. “The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.”

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456. “We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.”

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457. “To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction.”

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458. “If we look at our work immediately after completing it, we are still too involved; if too long afterwards, we cannot pick up the thread again. It.”

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459. “The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.”

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460. “Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.”

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461. “We like to be deceived.”

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462. “No animal admires another animal.”

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463. “The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.”

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464. “Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.”

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465. “Let us weigh up the gain and the loss involved in calling heads that God exists. Let us assess the two cases: if you win you win everything, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate then; wager that he does exist.”

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466. “Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.”

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467. “All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised?”

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468. “That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides that which we love.”

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469. “We are troubled only by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves.”

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470. “Quelque e tendue d’esprit que l’on ait, l’on n’est capable que d’une grande passion. However vast a man’s spirit, he is only capable of one great passion.”

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471. “Kind words produce their images on men’s souls.”

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472. “The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.”

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473. “Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.”

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474. “There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.”

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475. “There is internal war in man between reason and the passions. If he had only reason without passions... If he had only passions without reason... But having both, he cannot be without strife, being unable to be at peace with the one without being at war with the other. Thus he is always divided against, and opposed to himself.”

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476. “The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man’s true state.”

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477. “Great and small suffer the same mishaps.”

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478. “Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me, and I am competent only to admire them.”

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479. “If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.”

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480. “We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.”

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481. “Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.”

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482. “Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.”

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483. “It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.”

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484. “I can readily conceive of a man without hands or feet; and I could conceive of him without a head, if experience had not taught me that by this he thinks, Thought then, is the essence of man, and without this we cannot conceive of him.”

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485. “A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us.”

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486. “We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one for a certain time, we do worry. How long does this time have to be?”

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487. “That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.”

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488. “Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.”

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489. “Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.”

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490. “The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.”

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491. “Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.”

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492. “All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.”

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493. “Admiration spoils all from infancy.”

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494. “That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.”

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495. “How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.”

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496. “Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.”

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497. “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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498. “Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.”

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499. “Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.”

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500. “True eloquence scorns eloquence.”

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