Blaise Pascal Quotes About Weakness

Quotes about: Weakness

• No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.

  Blaise Pascal

  Betrayal, Soul, Weakness

• Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair.

  Blaise Pascal

  Passion, Heart, Sadness

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

• If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?

  Blaise Pascal

  Ambition, Pride, Men

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

• Just as I do not know where I came from, so I do not know where I am going. All I know is that when I leave this world I shall fall forever into oblivion, or into the hands of an angry God, without knowing which of the two will be my lot for eternity. Such is my state of mind, full of weakness and uncertainty. The only conclusion I can draw from all this is that I must pass my days without a thought of trying to find out what is going to happen to me.

  Blaise Pascal

  Fall, Hands, Two

  Blaise Pascal, James M. Houston (2006). “The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent”, p.120, David C Cook

• Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Men, Agony

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.369

• Sneezing absorbs all the functions of the soul just as much as the [sexual] act, but we do not draw from it the same conclusions against the greatness of man, because it is involuntary; although we bring it about, we do so involuntarily. It is not for the sake of the thing in itself but for another end, and is therefore not a sign of man's weakness, or his subjection to this act.

  Blaise Pascal

  Sex, Greatness, Men

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

• What amazes me most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.

  Blaise Pascal

  Weakness, Amazed

  "Human Happiness".

• The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Weakness, Reason, Humans

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.73

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