Blaise Pascal, Pensées Quotes

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?

We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.

Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything.

The charm of fame is so great, that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their want of authority and justice.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.

If man studied himself, he would see how incapable he is of going further.

To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.

There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature... and the thing which pleases us.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare it is the pleasure even of kings.

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

There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.

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