Philosophy Quote by Blaise Pascal — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

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

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.”

“We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.”

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

“It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.”

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

“Hope burns eternal in the human heart.”

“In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg.”

“This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world's divinely appointed ruler: 'I will not LET them starve. I will not LET the drought come. I will not LET the river flood.”

“Weather is a purely personal matter. There is no such thing as a climate that is cold or hot, good or bad, healthy or unhealthy. People take it upon themselves to create a fantasy in their imagination and call it weather. There's only one climate in the world, but the message that nature sends is interpreted according to strictly personal, non-transferable rules.”

“Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.”