Blaise Pascal Quotes

You do not have to ladle on the impasto to make a point about human frailty or ambitions.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.

Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.

I have spent seventy years finding out that I am not God.

There are things you have to look at with those world-class players, but at the end of the day, they're not superheroes. They're still human.

Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.

It's easy to forget people are blood and bone. They're not indestructible.

I know all human beings will be successful. How do I know? They all die.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.

Human nature is weak.

I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.

I recognize that I'm human, and the older I get, the more I realize how fallible I am, how fallible we all are.

You're on earth. There's no cure for that.

The human condition is not perfect. We are not perfect specimens, any of us. We're not robots.

Despite all the achievements of civilisation, the human being is still one of the most vulnerable creatures on earth.

I'm totally human.

We kid ourselves that we're trying to be empathetic with the human condition from a distance, but I don't think that is it at all. It's stupid; it's a waste of time. But when the earth flexes its muscles, that's rather different. That's a powerful reminder of where we are.

I guess what I always found funny was the human condition.