Blaise Pascal Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

  Blaise Pascal

  Past, Decision, Looks

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.168, Cosimo, Inc.

• If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future.

  Blaise Pascal

  Past, Thinking, Our Thoughts

  "The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal".

• Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light is throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.

  Blaise Pascal

  Mean, Past, Thinking

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

• We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to any pointand to fasten to it, it wavers and leaves us; and if we follow it, it eludes our grasp, slips past us, and vanishes for ever. Nothing stays for us.

  Blaise Pascal

  Knowledge, Past, Thinking

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.19, Courier Corporation

• The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.

  Blaise Pascal

  Mean, Past, Ends

• We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

  Blaise Pascal

  Time, Past, Thinking

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.75

• The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.

  Blaise Pascal

  Future, Mean, Past

  Blaise Pascal (1727). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Curious Subjects”, p.178

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