Blaise Pascal: Quotations

  • I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.
  • If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
  • Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
  • One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
  • People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
  • Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
  • The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
  • The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

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