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Blaise Pascal Quotes About Nature

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

Blaise Pascal Quotes About Love

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

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

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

More Quotes by Blaise Pascal

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

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

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

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.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

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

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

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