Blaise Pascal on Philosophy
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Blaise Pascal, catalogued under Philosophy, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Blaise Pascal, entry #215697: "Do not mistake yourself by believing that your being has something in it more exalted than that of others."
Attributed to Blaise Pascal, entry #103816: "The art of persuasion consists as much in that of pleasing as in that of convincing, so much more are men governed by caprice than by reason!"
6 Quotes by Blaise Pascal on Philosophy
"Do not mistake yourself by believing that your being has something in it more exalted than that of others."
"The art of persuasion consists as much in that of pleasing as in that of convincing, so much more are men governed by caprice than by reason!"
"Logic has borrowed, perhaps, the rules of geometry, without comprehending their force... it does not thence follow that they have entered into the spirit of geometry, and I should be greatly averse... to placing them on a level with that science that teaches the true method of directing reason."
"It is not your strength and your natural power that subjects all these people to you. Do not pretend then to rule them by force or to treat them with harshness. Satisfy their reasonable desires; alleviate their necessities; let your pleasure consist in being beneficent; advance them as much as you can, and you will act like the true king of desire."
"If it had pleased them [the legislators] to order that this wealth, after having been possessed by fathers during their life, should return to the republic after their death, you would have no reason to complain of it."
"When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the small space which I fill, or even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified, and wonder that I am here rather than there, for there is no reason why here rather than there, or now rather than then. Who has set me here? By whose order and design have this place and time been destined for me?—Memoria hospitis unius diei prætereuntis.It is not well to be too much at liberty. It is not well to have all we want.How many kingdoms know nothing of us!The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me."