List of Blaise Pascal Quotes

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Blaise Pascal
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Undoubtedly equality of goods is just; but, being unable to cause might to obey justice, men has made it just to obey might. unable to strengthen justice, they have justified might--so that the just and the strong should unite, and there should be peace, which is the sovereign good.
Strong Power Men
We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.
Life Hope To Live Arranging
Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy in it; if that man is left at any time without occupation or amusement, and reflects on what he is, the meagre, languid felicity of his present lot will not bear him up. he will turn necessarily to gloomy anticipations of the future; and unless his occupation calls him out of himself, he is inevitably wretched.
Happiness Men Occupation
It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.
Arrogant Ceremony Submit
We must make good people wish that the christian faith were true, and then show that it is.
Christian People Wish
The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.
Weakness Reason Humans
Piety is different from superstition. to carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. the heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. it is doing what they reproach us with.
Different Superstitions Submission
Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.
Men Doubt Might
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.
Simple Laughing Soul
I can readily conceive of a man without hands or feet; and i could conceive of him without a head, if experience had not taught me that by this he thinks, thought then, is the essence of man, and without this we cannot conceive of him.
Men Thinking Hands
I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.
Tears I Can
Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures.
Men Style Sake
  • Born: June 19, 1623
  • Died: August 19, 1662
  • Occupation: Mathematician
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