Blaise Pascal Quotes & Sayings (Page 12)

“The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.”

“There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.”

“We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.”

“Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.”

“The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.”

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

“If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!”

“The gospel to me is simply irresistible.”

“If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?”

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