Quotes by Pascal, Blaise

"We like to be deceived."

Pascal, Blaise on deception   

"Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden."

Pascal, Blaise on deeds and good deeds   

"Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary."

Pascal, Blaise on desire
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"The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory."

Pascal, Blaise on effort
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"Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason."

Pascal, Blaise on enthusiasm   

"Evil is easy, and has infinite forms."

Pascal, Blaise on evil   

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"I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone."

Pascal, Blaise on evil
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"Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience."

Pascal, Blaise on experience   

"Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God."

Pascal, Blaise on faith
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"Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other."

Pascal, Blaise on faith
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"Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them."

Pascal, Blaise on faith   

"It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason."

Pascal, Blaise on faith
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"The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death."

Pascal, Blaise on fame   

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"Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them."

Pascal, Blaise on fame   

"It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants."

Pascal, Blaise on freedom
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"If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists."

Pascal, Blaise on god
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"The gospel to me is simply irresistible."

Pascal, Blaise on gospel   

"If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world."

Pascal, Blaise on gossip   

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

Pascal, Blaise on gossip   

"Habit is the second nature which destroys the first."

Pascal, Blaise on habit   

"Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature."

Pascal, Blaise on habit   

"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways."

Pascal, Blaise on art
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"If you would have people speak well of you, then do not speak well of yourself."

Pascal, Blaise on humility
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"Imagination decides everything."

Pascal, Blaise on imagination   

"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world."

Pascal, Blaise on imagination   

"We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured."

Pascal, Blaise on infallibility   

"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."

Pascal, Blaise on influence   

"Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair."

Pascal, Blaise on jesus christ
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"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."

Pascal, Blaise on kindness   

"Law, without force, is impotent."

Pascal, Blaise on law and lawyers   

"We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so."

Pascal, Blaise on life   

"Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world."

Pascal, Blaise on life
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"We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting."

Pascal, Blaise on listening   

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"When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before."

Pascal, Blaise on love
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"Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way."

Pascal, Blaise on mediocrity   

"All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone."

Pascal, Blaise on misers and misery   

"To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity."

Pascal, Blaise on moderation   

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"It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed."

Pascal, Blaise on obedience   

"The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men."

Pascal, Blaise on originality
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"What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire."

Pascal, Blaise on painters and painting