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Blaise Pascal Quotes about Truth

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Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

Truth, Soul, Investing

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

Truth, Lying, Men

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Truth, Long, Purpose

We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Wisdom, Truth, Heart

"Blaise Pascal Thoughts: Selected and Translated".

We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to refute them.

Truth, Heart, Trying

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

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

Truth, May, Trust In God

Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview. Too great length and too great brevity of discourse tends to obscurity; too much truth is paralyzing.... In short, extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.

Truth, Distance, Light

It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.

Truth, Believe, Men

"Of the Geometrical Spirit". Book by Blaise Pascal, 2015.

When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the progress of diseases, etc. For the chief malady of man is a restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose.

Truth, Men, Moon

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Truth, Contradiction, Mathematics

"Bare Facts and Naked Truths: A New Correspondence Theory of Truth". Book by George Englebretsen (p. 153), 2006.

What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?

Truth, Pride, Men

There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs.

Truth, Darkness, Would Be

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.263, Simon and Schuster

It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.

Truth, Responsibility, Fighting

...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.

Truth, Men, Opinion

We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.

Truth, Ideas, Invincible

Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.120, Letcetera Publishing

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