Blaise Pascal Quotes About Progress

Quotes about: Progress

• 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

• When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the progress of diseases, etc. For the chief malady of man is a restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose.

  Blaise Pascal

  Truth, Men, Moon

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

• The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.

  Blaise Pascal

  Mind, Progress, Want

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.153

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