150 Quotations by Blaise Pascal
- 21. Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
- 22. Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
- 23. Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
- 24. Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their ...
- 25. Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
- 26. Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
- 27. Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, ...
- 28. Faith declares what the senses do not see, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them, ...
- 29. Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
- 30. Faith is a gift of God.
- 31. Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can go only so far, but faith has no limits.
- 32. Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a gift from God.
- 33. For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, ...
- 34. Going beyond the limits of moderation is an outrage to humanity.
- 35. Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
- 36. Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am ...
- 37. Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
- 38. I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in ...
- 39. I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
- 40. I have made this letter a rather long one, only because I didn't have the leisure to make it shorter ...
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