Quote #43
Notre raison est toujours decue par l'inconstance des apparences. (83)
More from Blaise Pascal
- 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. (66)
- Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince h…
- One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person. (336)
- Le silence est la plus grande persecution; jamais les saints ne se sont tus. (919)
- Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak. (330)
- That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that …
- Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason. (272)
- The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me.