Blaise Pascal Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Evil, Inability

• Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Sad, Religious

  Pensees no. 894 (1670 ed.)

• Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

  Blaise Pascal

  Evil, Infinite, Easy

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.133, Cosimo, Inc.

• We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.

  Blaise Pascal

  Evil, Principles, Conscience

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 157, 1895.

• We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.

  Blaise Pascal

  Sight, Evil, Example

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.205

• All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.

  Blaise Pascal

  Evil, Solitude, Stem

• If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, Evil, Blindness

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.165, Cosimo, Inc.

• Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

  Blaise Pascal

  Evil, Add, Investing

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.31, Courier Corporation

• Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good; and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.

  Blaise Pascal

  Unique, Greatness, Class

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.147

• When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think otherwise. All this is evil, yet it is innate.

  Blaise Pascal

  God, Thinking, Evil

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.214

• Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.

  Blaise Pascal

  War, Evil, Wish

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.203

• Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Evil, Rooms

• We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Real, Vanity

• The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine volition...Rather, everything small and large is written and comes to be in a known and expected measure.

  Blaise Pascal

  Evil, Gist, Divine

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