Blaise Pascal: Citations en anglais (Page 3)

“I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.”

“I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.”

“People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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”

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

“Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.”

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

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

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

“To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.”

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

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

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

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