Blaise Pascal Quotes About Quality

Quotes about: Quality

• If a man loves a woman for her beauty, does he love her? No; for the smallpox, which destroys her beauty without killing her, causes his love to cease. And if any one loves me for my judgment or my memory, does he really love me? No; for I can lose these qualities without ceasing to be.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Memories, Men

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.127

• Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

  Blaise Pascal

  Beauty, Nature, Quality

• We never love a person, but only qualities.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Quality, Persons

  Blaise Pascal (1946). “Pascal's Pensées, or, Thoughts on religion”

• Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself simply to any object. Hence it comes that we weep and laugh at the same thing.

  Blaise Pascal

  Simple, Laughing, Soul

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

• Nobody is publicly accepted as an expert on poetry unless he displays the sign of poet, mathematician, etc., but universal men want no sign and make hardly any distinction between the crafts of poet and embroiderer. Universal men are not called poets or mathematicians, etc. But they are all these things and judges of them too. No one could guess what they are, and they will talk about whatever was being talked about when they came in. One quality is not more noticeable in them than another, unless it becomes necessary to put it into practice, and then we remember it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Practice, Judging

• We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that they are impalpable: we do not feel them, though we suffer from their effects.

  Blaise Pascal

  Feelings, Suffering, Quality

• That queen, of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not always deceive. She would be the infallible rule of truth if she were the infallible rule of falsehood; but being only most frequently in error, she gives no evidence of her real quality, for she marks with the same character both that which is true and that which is false.

  Blaise Pascal

  Queens, Real, Character

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.95

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