Blaise Pascal Quotes

It is undoubtedly a bad thing to be full of defects; but it is an even greater evil to be full of them and not want to acknowledge it, because that is adding the evil of voluntary illusion.

By talking about love, one ends up falling in love. Nothing so easy. This is the most natural passion of man.

One of man's main diseases is his restless curiosity to know what he cannot possibly know.

The queen of the world is force and not opinion; but it is opinion that uses force.

Eloquence is a painting of the mind, and for this reason those who, after painting, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

It is miserable to know oneself to be miserable, but it is great to recognize that one is miserable.

When we read too quickly or too slowly, we don't understand anything.

The ones who possess the spirit of discernment know how much difference can exist between two similar words, depending on the places and circumstances that accompany them.

What is man within nature? Nothing compared to the infinite. Everything compared to nothing. An intermediary between nothing and everything.

We possess neither the truth nor the good, except in part and mixed with falsehood and with evil.

Every religion that does not affirm that God is hidden, is not true.

Little consoles us because little afflicts us.