Blaise Pascal Quotes About Morality

Quotes about: Morality

• Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

  Blaise Pascal

  Time, Ignorance, Knowledge

  c.1654-1662 Pense es, no.23.

• True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which has no rules, makes light of the morality of the intellect.... To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

  Blaise Pascal

  Philosophy, Light, Morality

  Blaise Pascal (2009). “Thoughts”, p.16, Lulu.com

• Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Thinking, Morality

• Our true dignity consists — in thought. Thence we must derive our elevation, not from space or duration. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morals.

  Blaise Pascal

  Thinking, Principles, Morality

  "Thoughts of Blaise Pascal".

• 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

• La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

  Blaise Pascal

  Time, Morality, Morale

• Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

  Blaise Pascal

  Peace, Men, Rivers

• Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

  Blaise Pascal

  Our Actions, Causes, Morality

  Blaise Pascal, Roger Ariew “PensŽes”, Hackett Publishing

• True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality.

  Blaise Pascal

  Light, Morality, Eloquence

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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