Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
Blaise Pascal quote The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
Blaise Pascal quote One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
Blaise Pascal quote What a chimera, then, is man! What a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! A judge of all things, feeble worm of the earth, depositary of the truth, cloaca of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe!
Blaise Pascal quote If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed
Blaise Pascal quote Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed
Blaise Pascal quote When the passions become masters, they are vices
Blaise Pascal quote We never, then, love a person, but only qualities
Blaise Pascal quote Biography
French philosopher