Pascal's most famous thoughts
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. · Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. · Cleopatra's nose: had it been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have changed.. (Updated Aug 9, 2020.)
From the thinking reed to Cleopatra's nose: the lines from Blaise Pascal's Pensées and Provincial Letters that are still quoted.
Automatically translated (original in Français). See the original
Top 14
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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Pensées.
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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed.
Pensées.
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Cleopatra's nose: had it been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have changed.
Pensées.
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The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
Pensées.
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Man is neither angel nor beast, and the misfortune is that whoever wants to play the angel plays the beast.
Pensées.
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I have discovered that all human unhappiness comes from one thing: not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
Pensées.
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I have made this letter longer only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Provincial Letters, XVI.
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The self is hateful.
Pensées.
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Truth on this side of the Pyrenees, error on the other.
Pensées.
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Unable to make justice strong, we have made strength just.
Pensées.
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True eloquence mocks eloquence; true morality mocks morality.
Pensées.
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What is man in nature? Nothing compared with the infinite, everything compared with nothing, a middle point between nothing and everything.
Pensées.
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The human condition: inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.
Pensées.
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The most important thing in life is the choice of a trade.
Pensées.
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We never seek things, but the seeking of things.
Pensées.
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