Blaise Pascal

(418 votes)   Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

Blaise Pascal
1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher

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(306 votes)   What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

Blaise Pascal
1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher

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(301 votes)   If you would have people speak well of you, then do not speak well of yourself.

Blaise Pascal
1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher

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(282 votes)   To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Blaise Pascal
1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher

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(264 votes)   There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.

Blaise Pascal
1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher

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(190 votes)   I have made this letter a rather long one, only because I didn't have the leisure to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal
1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher

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(146 votes)   It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.

Blaise Pascal
1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher

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(124 votes)   The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.

Blaise Pascal
1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher

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(109 votes)   To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

Blaise Pascal
1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher

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(107 votes)   It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

Blaise Pascal
1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher

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(107 votes)   The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.

Blaise Pascal
1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher

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(86 votes)   Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Blaise Pascal
1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher

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(85 votes)   Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Blaise Pascal
1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher

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(75 votes)   The property of power is to protect.

Blaise Pascal
1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher

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(74 votes)   The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Blaise Pascal
1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher

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