Blaise Pascal

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#pride #vanity #curiosity

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#philosophical

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#hell #intelligence #paradise #stupidity #intelligence

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#men

By space the universe encompasses me and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#inspirational

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#desire #even #fame #having #read

Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#love

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#speak #think #well #wish #you

I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#religion #faith

Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#rest #men