All BLAISE PASCAL Quotes about “Evil”

“All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.”
“Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.”
“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.”
“All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.”
“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.”
“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.”
“We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.”
“Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good; and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.”
“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.”
“Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.”
“Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.”

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