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Blaise Pascal Quotes about Passion

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Love, Inspirational, Passion

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Business, Passion, Men

Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.

Beautiful, Passion, Excess

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty, insufficient, dependent, ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom, gloom, sorrow, chagrin, resentment and despair.

Passion, Men, Boredom

All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theater. It is a representation of the passions so natural and so delicate that it excites them and gives birth to them in our hearts, and, above all, to that of love.

Love, Christian, Passion

Blaise Pascal (1959). “Pascal's Pensées: Selections”, p.18, Prabhat Prakashan

Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.

Loneliness, Passion, Men

There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he feels his own nothingness, isolation, insignificance, dependent nature, powerless, emptiness. Immediately there issue from his soul ennui, sadness, chagrin, vexation, despair.

Sadness, Passion, Men

The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.

Passion, Two, Deception

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

Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.

Time, Passion, Years

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.198, Courier Corporation

When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours. ...such community of intellect that we have with him necessarily inclines the heart to love.

Life, Passion, Heart

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.

Passion, Knowing, Style

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.

Passion, Heart, Sadness

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

Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does of us in our absence. Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion.

Passion, Men, Deception

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.

Spiritual, Passion, Math

Quelque e tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only capable of one great passion.

Passion, Men, Spirit

On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at Court or at war, from which so many quarrels, passions, risky, often ill-conceived actions and so on are born, I have often said that man's unhappiness springs from one thing alone, his incapacity to stay quietly in one room.

Spring, War, Passion

"Pensées and Other Writings".

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too.

Passion, Mean, Mind

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