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Quotations By Blaise Pascal

Confusion

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Earth

The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.

Evil

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

Evil

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

Justice

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. -- Blaise Pascal

Love

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.

Perfection

Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only his image.

Thoughts

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. -- Blaise Pascal