Top 500 Blaise Pascal Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.”

— Blaise Pascal

202. “We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.”

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203. “If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?”

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204. “It is man’s natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.”

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205. “The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.”

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206. “Opinion is the queen of the world.”

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207. “Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?”

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208. “Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.”

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209. “The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.”

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210. “Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.”

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211. “Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.”

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212. “When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.”

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213. “It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.”

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214. “All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.”

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215. “Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.”

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216. “I should not be a Christian but for the miracles.”

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217. “We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.”

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218. “What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it.”

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219. “All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.”

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220. “He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.”

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221. “Tout le malheur des hommes vient d’une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.”

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222. “All mankind’s unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.”

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223. “Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.”

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224. “Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.”

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225. “Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.”

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226. “I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give a fillip to set the world in motion; beyond this, he has no further need of God.”

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227. “The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.”

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228. “There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.”

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229. “Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you – will quiet your proudly critical intellect.”

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230. “The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.”

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231. “Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.”

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232. “A given man lives a life free from boredom by gambling a small sum every day. Give him every morning the money he might win that day, but on condition that he does not gamble, and you will make him unhappy.”

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233. “Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is.”

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234. “Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied.”

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235. “Le silence e ternel de ces espaces infinis m’effraie. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.”

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236. “We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.”

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237. “Any unity which doesn’t have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.”

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238. “The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.”

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239. “If you believe in God you are at no disadvantage in this life, and at considerable advantage in the next. If you do not believe, but find in the next that there was a next, you are most unfortunate!”

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240. “Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.”

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241. “I like The Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace.”

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242. “Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death.”

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243. “I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.”

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244. “We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.”

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245. “Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?”

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246. “The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.”

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247. “To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep within proper bounds. There are two equally dangerous extremes- to shut reason out, and not to let nothing in.”

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248. “One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.”

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249. “If ignorance were bliss, he’d be a blister.”

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250. “Little things console us because little things afflict us.”

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