Blaise Pascal quotes

Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher renowned for his contributions to science and philosophy. His work laid important foundations for probability theory, fluid mechanics, and the study of vacuums. He also famously explored faith and reason in his philosophical writings. Here are 343 of his quotes:

Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. (Blaise Pascal)
The heart has reasons which reason knows nothing of. View quote
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We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. View quote
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. View quote
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To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize. View quote
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The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men. View quote
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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. View quote
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Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. View quote
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Literally: I made this one [letter] longer only because I have not had the leisure to make it shorter. View quote
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We never love a person, but only qualities. View quote
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. (Blaise Pascal)
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread. View quote
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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. View quote
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what he loves. View quote
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Chess is the gymnasium of the mind. View quote
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Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. View quote
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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. View quote
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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. View quote
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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants. View quote
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Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience. View quote
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I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world. (Blaise Pascal)
Justice without strength is powerless strength without justice is tyrannical. View quote
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Our nature consists in movement absolute rest is death. View quote
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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. View quote
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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. View quote
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Blaise Pascal

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Occupation: French Mathematician
Born: June 19, 1623
Died: August 19, 1662
Quotes count: 343
Wikipedia: Blaise Pascal

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