Blaise Pascal Strange Quotations

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have strange defects to be contemptible. But it has such, so that nothing is more ridiculous. How great it is in its nature! How vile it is in its defects! But what is this thought? How foolish it is!

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion.