Blaise Pascal Quotes About Glory

Quotes about: Glory

• Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.

  Blaise Pascal

  Reading, Writing, Math

• (Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Scandal, Glory

  Blaise Pascal (1731). “Thoughts on Religion, and Other Curious Subjects: Written Originally in French”, p.162

• The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Glory, Sweetness

  Blaise Pascal, Auguste Molinier (1905). “The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”

• Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against vanity want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Philosophical, Writing, Heart

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.46, Courier Corporation

• Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.

  Blaise Pascal

  Wise, Imagination, Fool

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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