All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice. Blaise Pascal More Quotes by Blaise Pascal More Quotes From Blaise Pascal We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it. Blaise Pascal abyss seeing running If ignorance were bliss, he'd be a blister Blaise Pascal blisters bliss ignorance It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. Blaise Pascal reason math heart To understand is to forgive. Blaise Pascal forgiveness forgiving understanding 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. Blaise Pascal light mind winning 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 Blaise Pascal philosophical taught men If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future. Blaise Pascal our-thoughts past thinking Vanity is but the surface. Blaise Pascal surface vanity Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail. Blaise Pascal imagination world needs Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common. Blaise Pascal familiar common I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter. Blaise Pascal learning usual time All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art of Conversation pauses with so much care to make it understood that we must not judge of the capacity of a man by the excellence of a happy remark that we heard him make. Let us penetrate, says he, the mind from which it proceeds. It will oftenest be seen that he will be made to disavow it on the spot, and will be drawn very far from this better thought in which he does not believe, to plunge himself into another, quite base and ridiculous. Blaise Pascal men believe art There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change every hour, I do not know whether there is a means of giving fixed Blaise Pascal hours giving mean Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity weakens an argument, too much pleasure gives pain, too much accordance annoys. Blaise Pascal distance pain light You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies. Blaise Pascal favour enemy religion Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. Blaise Pascal contradiction mathematics truth You are in the same manner surrounded with a small circle of persons... full of desire. They demand of you the benefits of desire... You are therefore properly the king of desire. ...equal Blaise Pascal circles kings men What is it, in your opinion, to be a great nobleman? It is to be master of several objects that men covet, and thus to be able to satisfy the wants and the desires of many. It is these Blaise Pascal desire men looks People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others. Blaise Pascal mind discovery people The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart from science, and the imitations of it, there are no Blaise Pascal erring imitation world
