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

“To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.”

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

“We are all something, but none of us are everything.”

“Being unable to cure death, wretchedness and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.”

“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”

“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”

“As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.”

“For wordsmiths and masters of words, without necessarily being harsh with words, the words have a tendency to shoot straight to the hearts of people, and this either deeply touches them or deeply angers them. Like the apostles in all their loving controversies are those who are masters of words while combining this gift with truth.”

“in this case, a mother, noted for her beauty, might be reduced to a purple shadow... (Tansley to Lily on her painting of the house & grounds)”

“Putting food under lock and key was one of the great innovations of your culture. No other culture in history has ever put food under lock and key - and putting it there is the cornerstone of your economy.[...] Because if the food wasn't under lock and key, Julie, who would work?”

“Actually it is quite devastating to realise how few people ever think at all. They mostly take their ideas from what they are told on the wireless, television, or in the newspapers, from people who are prepared to take a reasonable fee. To suggest anything different makes you tread on many corns of vested interest. No professional pathfinder likes you for doing it.”