Top 500 Blaise Pascal Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.”

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

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253. “Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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262. “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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263. “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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264. “Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.”

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

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

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267. “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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268. “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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269. “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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270. “Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.”

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

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272. “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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273. “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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274. “The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.”

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

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

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277. “May God never abandon me.”

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

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

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

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

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

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283. “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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284. “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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285. “How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!”

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

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290. “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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291. “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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292. “Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.”

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

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

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

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296. “Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.”

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297. “Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.”

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298. “I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.”

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299. “We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.”

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300. “I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in believing it true.”

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