Top 500 Blaise Pascal Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

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453. “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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454. “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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455. “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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456. “Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.”

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

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458. “No animal admires another animal.”

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459. “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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460. “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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461. “The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.”

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

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464. “Who knows if this other half of life where we think we’re awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.”

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465. “We like to be deceived.”

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466. “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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467. “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.”

— Blaise Pascal

468. “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.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

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

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472. “There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them.”

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

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

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

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

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477. “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.”

— Blaise Pascal

478. “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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479. “A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us.”

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

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

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

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

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486. “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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487. “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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488. “That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.”

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

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490. “Admiration spoils all from infancy.”

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

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492. “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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493. “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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494. “Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.”

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

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496. “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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497. “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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498. “True eloquence scorns eloquence.”

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499. “The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.”

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

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