Blaise Pascal Quotes about Doubt

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If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it's possible, in everything.

If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it's possible, in everything.

Blaise Pascal

Real, Doubt, Needs

To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.

Blaise Pascal

Doubt, Unfair, Duty

Blaise Pascal, Auguste Molinier (1905). “The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”

Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live not a moment exempt from its influence.

Blaise Pascal

Love, Doubt, Facts

Blaise Pascal, Prosper Faugère (1849). “The Miscellaneous Writings of Pascal: Consisting of Letters, Essays, Conversations, and Miscellaneous Thoughts (the Greater Part Hertofore Unpublished in this Country, and a Large Portion from Original Mss.)”, p.132

The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.

Blaise Pascal

Atheist, Soul, Doubt

Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.226

This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing that is not a matter of doubt and disquiet.

Blaise Pascal

Doubt, Obscurity, Looks