Blaise Pascal Quotes & Quotations

Blaise Pascal Quotes

» If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

» Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

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

» Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.

» It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.

» The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

» Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.

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

» We like to be deceived.

» Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

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