Quotes by Blaise Pascal
8 quotes by Blaise Pascal (died 1662), taken from 2 works. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.
Works quoted: Pensées and Thoughts.
Pensées
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“The heart has its reasons, which reason knows not, as we feel in a thousand instances.”
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“Man is but a reed, weakest in nature, but a reed which thinks.”
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“All our dignity therefore consists in thought. By this must we raise ourselves, not by space or duration which we cannot fill. Then let us make it our study to think well, for this is the starting-point of morals.”
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“All the misfortunes of men arise from one thing only, that they are unable to stay quietly in their own chamber.”
Thoughts
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“No one is vexed at not seeing everything. But we do not like to be mistaken.”
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“The strength of a man’s virtue must not be measured by his occasional efforts, but by his ordinary life.”
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“We are usually better persuaded by reasons which we have ourselves discovered, than by those which have come into the mind of others.”
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“The present is never our end; the past and the present are our means, the future alone is our end. Thus we never live, but hope to live.”