Blaise Pascal: Trending quotes (page 5)

“Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.”

“Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.”

“The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.”

“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”

“Little things comfort us because little things distress us.”

“Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.”

“Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.”

“To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.”

“Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.”

“It is a natural illness of man to think that he possesses the truth directly…”

“We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.”

“Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.”

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

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of… We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal”

“Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back”

“When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.”

“Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.”

“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”

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