Blaise Pascal Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.

  Blaise Pascal

  Two, Suffering, Excess

  Blaise Pascal, James M. Houston (2006). “The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent”, p.133, David C Cook

• The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity that there is no man more different from
  another than from himself at different times.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Diversity, Principles

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.409, Cosimo, Inc.

• By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which is the science, by way of eminence, of living well and being happy), but all mankind together is making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older. So that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man who never ceases to live and learn.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Race, Progress

• All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.

  Blaise Pascal

  Life, Inability, Trouble

• The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.

  Blaise Pascal

  Dog, Mankind, My Dog

• All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.

  Blaise Pascal

  Knowing, Misery, Mankind

• Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.

  Blaise Pascal

  Ancient, Infancy, Mankind

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works”, p.449, Cosimo, Inc.

• All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inability, Rooms, Unhappiness

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