Top 500 Blaise Pascal Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “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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302. “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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303. “We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.”

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304. “I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great? Guess.”

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

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306. “Wisdom leads us back to childhood. Except ye become as little children.”

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307. “Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.”

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308. “The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.”

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309. “Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.”

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310. “Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.”

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311. “You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.”

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312. “We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason.”

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313. “Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.”

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314. “It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.”

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315. “Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.”

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316. “Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth.”

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317. “If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?”

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318. “Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.”

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319. “However vast a man’s spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.”

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320. “To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.”

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321. “Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.”

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322. “The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.”

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323. “The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.”

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324. “Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.”

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325. “Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance.”

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326. “Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.”

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327. “Custom determines what is agreeable.”

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328. “All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.”

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329. “Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force.”

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330. “The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.”

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331. “True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality.”

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332. “It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.”

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333. “If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.”

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334. “Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.”

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335. “All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.”

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336. “Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.”

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337. “We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.”

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338. “Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.”

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339. “There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.”

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340. “Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.”

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341. “God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.”

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342. “If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!”

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343. “Le silence est la plus grande perse cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was ever silent.”

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344. “The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.”

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345. “The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.”

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346. “If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God.”

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347. “Man’s grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.”

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348. “Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.”

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349. “We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that they are impalpable: we do not feel them, though we suffer from their effects.”

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350. “We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.”

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