When intuition and logic agree, you are always right. Blaise Pascal More Quotes by Blaise Pascal More Quotes From Blaise Pascal We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six persons immediately around us is enough to amuse and satisfy us. Blaise Pascal vanitywishworld Generally we are occupied either with the miseries which now we feel, or with those which threaten; and even when we see ourselves sufficiently secure from the approach of either, still fretfulness, though unwarranted by either present or expected affliction, fails not to spring up from the deep recesses of the heart, where its roots naturally grow, and to fill the soul with its poison. Blaise Pascal rootsheartspring The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel. Blaise Pascal independentgivingmen 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. Blaise Pascal doubtreasondoe What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial. Blaise Pascal fleshhandsblood You gave me health that I might serve you; and so often I failed to use my good health in your service. Now you send me sickness in order to correct me Grant that, having ignored the things of spirit when my body was vigorous, I may now enjoy spiritual sweetness while my body groans with pain. Blaise Pascal painspiritualorder Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied. Blaise Pascal denytoo-muchlittles Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real. Blaise Pascal realreason We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness. Blaise Pascal miserycertaintydesire The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first. Blaise Pascal lastsbookfirsts What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it. Blaise Pascal returneasteratheist Let each of us examine his thoughts Blaise Pascal Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too. Blaise Pascal passionmindmean Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance. Blaise Pascal laughtertogethertwo Custom determines what is agreeable. Blaise Pascal customsdetermine Everything that is incomprehensible does not, however, cease to exist. Blaise Pascal ceaseexistencedoe Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable. Blaise Pascal admirablegood-deedsdeeds Not to be mad is another form of madness Blaise Pascal madmadnessinspirational The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions. Blaise Pascal passiondeceptiontwo Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, forever, but merely for an instant. Blaise Pascal intelligenceeffortforever
