BLAISE PASCAL

Enneagram Type 5 (The Investigator) with a 4 Wing


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Blaise Pascal quotes that show he is a Type 5

  • All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone"  (this quote also illustrates his 4 Wing).

  • “Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”

  • “Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”

  • “I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.”

  • "Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed."

  • "Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same."

  • “To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.”

  • “The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.”

  • "Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."

  • "The heart has its reasons which reason knows not." (this quote illustrates his 4 Wing).

  • "The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men." (this quote also illustrates his 4 Wing).

  • "People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others" (this quote also illustrates his 4 Wing).