The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion. Blaise Pascal More Quotes by Blaise Pascal More Quotes From Blaise Pascal 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. Blaise Pascal distanceworkmath I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans. Blaise Pascal i-canpraisemen Without the knowledge of our wretchedness, the knowledge of God creates pride. With it, the knowledge of God creates despair. The knowledge of Christ offers a third way, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness. Blaise Pascal despairpridehope The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first. Blaise Pascal writinginspirationalbook Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits. Blaise Pascal limitsfaithreason A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses, trees, tiles leaves, grasses, ants, legs of ants and so on to infinity. All this is subsumed under the name of landscape. Blaise Pascal nameshousetree Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment. Blaise Pascal gratitudeimaginationloss Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a glance and are not used to seeking for first principles. Those, on the other hand, who are accustomed to reason from first principles do not understand matters of feeling at all, because they look for first principles and are unable to comprehend at a glance. Blaise Pascal judgingmathhands All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature. Blaise Pascal visiblenatureworld Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted. Blaise Pascal acceptedsimplereason By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which is the science, by way of eminence, of living well and being happy), but all mankind together is making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older. So that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man who never ceases to live and learn. Blaise Pascal progressracemen When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing. Blaise Pascal books-and-readingreadingbook Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself simply to any object. Hence it comes that we weep and laugh at the same thing. Blaise Pascal soulsimplelaughing Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant. Blaise Pascal authorityjudgingsake It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause. Blaise Pascal causesjudgingmen The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room. Blaise Pascal inabilitymenrooms 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 Blaise Pascal blindnessevilbelieve Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden. Blaise Pascal uglygoodnessdeeds Look for the truth, it wants to be found. Blaise Pascal foundwantlooks You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot of it (as I have many reasons for believing, although everyone who has so far written about it is of the contrary opinion), it follows that the weight of the air must be the sole cause of the phenomenon, and not that abhorrence of a vacuum, since it is obvious that at the foot of the mountain there is more air to have weight than at the summit, and we cannot possibly say that the air at the foot of the mountain has a greater aversion to empty space than at the top. Blaise Pascal airfeetbelieve
