Top 500 Blaise Pascal Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.”

— Blaise Pascal

252. “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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253. “Little things console us because little things afflict us.”

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

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255. “He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.”

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256. “Things are always at their best in their beginning.”

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257. “The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.”

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258. “The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.”

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259. “Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.”

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260. “Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.”

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261. “Two faces are alike; neither is funny by itself, but side by side their likeness makes us laugh.”

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262. “Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only his image.”

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263. “What amazes me the most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.”

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264. “We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is.”

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265. “Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.”

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266. “The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.”

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267. “Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering.”

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268. “Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.”

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269. “The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.”

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270. “There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.”

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271. “If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that passes all understanding.”

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272. “Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.”

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273. “Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.”

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274. “It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.”

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275. “When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.”

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276. “If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.”

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277. “Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.”

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278. “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.”

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279. “The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.”

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280. “What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.”

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281. “If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.”

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282. “May God never abandon me.”

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283. “To deny, to believe, and to doubt well are to a man as the race is to a horse.”

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284. “Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere.”

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285. “Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.”

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286. “The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.”

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287. “No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth.”

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288. “The knowledge of God without that of man’s misery causes pride. The knowledge of man’s misery without that of God causes despair. The knowledge of Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in Him we find both God and our misery.”

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289. “Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it.”

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290. “Which is the more believable of the two, Moses or China?”

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291. “How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!”

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292. “We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them. So, without the hunger for spiritual things, we weary of them. Hunger after righteousness – the eighth beatitude.”

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293. “Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances.”

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294. “We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone.”

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295. “Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.”

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296. “All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.”

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297. “Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.”

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298. “Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.”

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299. “Quand on voit le style naturel, on est tout e tonne et ravi, car on s’attendait de voir un auteur, et on trouve un homme. When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.”

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300. “Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.”

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