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3/24/11

Blaise Pascal Quotes


“A jester, a bad character. [Fr., Diseur de bon mots, mauvais caractere.]” ~Blaise Pascal on Jesting

"All of man's problem arises in his inability to sit in a quiet room alone." ~Blaise Pascal 

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

"All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber." ~Blaise Pascal in Pensées

"Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us." ~Blaise Pascal

"Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves." ~Blaise Pascal

"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth."  ~Blaise Pascal

"Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself." ~Blaise Pascal

"Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason." ~Blaise Pascal on Enthusiasm

"If Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the whole face of the world would have changed." ~Blaise Pascal

"Imagination decides everything." ~Blaise Pascal

"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much." ~Blaise Pascal

"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed." ~Blaise Pascal

"Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go." ~Blaise Pascal

"Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary." ~Blaise Pascal

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." ~Blaise Pascal

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of." ~Blaise Pascal

‪"The Heart has reasons unknown to Reason." ~Blaise Pascal ‬

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

"The power of man's virtue should be measured not by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing." ~Blaise Pascal

"The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion." ~Blaise Pascal

"The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life." ~Blaise Pascal

"The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason." ~Blaise Pascal

"The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter." ~Blaise Pascal

"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it." ~Blaise Pascal

"We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others." ~Blaise Pascal

"We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart." ~Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) French Mathematician and philosopher

"We shall die alone." ~Blaise Pascal

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

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Verses:

"Continuous eloquence wearies....
Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated.
Continuity in everything is unpleasant.
Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm." ~Blaise Pascal

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