Blaise Pascal Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• It is dangerous to explain too clearly to man how like he is to the animals without pointing out his greatness. It is also dangerous to make too much of his greatness without his vileness. It is still more dangerous to leave him in ignorance of both, but it is most valuable to represent both to him. Man must not be allowed to believe that he is equal either to animals or to angels, nor to be unaware of either, but he must know both.

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, Ignorance, Angel

  Blaise Pascal (2008). “Human Happiness”, p.28, Penguin UK

• No animal admires another animal.

  Blaise Pascal

  Animal, Pet, Admire

• The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to attribute will to it, as to the animals.

  Blaise Pascal

  Animal, Doe, Machines

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.119, Cosimo, Inc.

• The greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is nature, we call in man wretchedness--by which we recognize that, his nature being now like that of animals, he has fallen from a better nature which once was his.

  Blaise Pascal

  Animal, Greatness, Men

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.150, Open Road Media

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