Blaise Pascal Quotes

In every action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others ...

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

The past and present are only our means the future is always our end. Thus we never really live bu...

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous...

All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of...

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

Knowlege of God without knowledge of man's wretchedness leads to pride. Knowledge of man's wretchedn...

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

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

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

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts but by his ordinary doing...

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offend...

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his every-day co...

Everyone without exception is searching for happiness.

The heart has reasons which reason cannot understand.

If we all told what we know of one another there would not be four friends in the world

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who d...

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything ...

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Losses are comparative imagination only makes them of any moment.

When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, an...

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think ...

Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, th...

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

The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they empl...

Continuity in everything is unpleasant.

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things it is feeble ...

If you want people to think well of you do not speak well of yourself.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above,...

Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast any...

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others ...

Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

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

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

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

Imagination decides everything.

Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they...

If a soldier or labourer complains of the hardship of his lot set him to do nothing.

As we are always preparing to be happy it is inevitable that we should never be so.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride and before whom we humble ourselves without de...

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about e...

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side...

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest without passion without business without ...

We sail within a vast sphere ever drifting in uncertainty driven from end to end.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their...

No animal admires another animal.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But ...

Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Two things control man's nature: instinct and experience.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above t...

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom through thought I comprehend ...

Man is only a reed the weakest thing in nature but he is a thinking reed.

I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friend...

Losses are comparative only imagination makes them of any moment.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.

Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever i...

All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they em...

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart beca...

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.

When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of...

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a sain...

We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves we desire to live an imaginary life ...

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past present and future state and at others w...

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Faith declares what the senses do not see but not the contrary of what they see.

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

I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual ...

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

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we...

Faith is a gift of God.

Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

It is the heart which experiences God not the reason.

Lust and force are the source of all our actions lust causes voluntary actions force involuntary o...

Kind words produce their images on men's souls.

God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality.

The struggle alone pleases us not the victory.

It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit...

Great and small suffer the same mishaps.