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Blaise Pascal Quotes about Evil

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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

Blaise Pascal
Evil, Infinite, Easy
Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.133, Cosimo, Inc.

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

Blaise Pascal
Believe, Evil, Blindness
Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.165, Cosimo, Inc.

All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.

Blaise Pascal
Evil, Solitude, Stem

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

Blaise Pascal
Men, Evil, Inability

We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.

Blaise Pascal
Evil, Principles, Conscience
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 157, 1895.

Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.

Blaise Pascal
War, Evil, Wish
Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.203

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Blaise Pascal
Evil, Add, Investing
Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.31, Courier Corporation

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

Blaise Pascal
Men, Evil, Rooms

The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine volition...Rather, everything small and large is written and comes to be in a known and expected measure.

Blaise Pascal
Evil, Gist, Divine

When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think otherwise. All this is evil, yet it is innate.

Blaise Pascal
God, Thinking, Evil
Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.214

We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.

Blaise Pascal
Sight, Evil, Example
Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.205

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