Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. Blaise Pascal - Thoughts and Thinking
Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it. Blaise Pascal - Truth
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. Blaise Pascal - Desire
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways. Blaise Pascal - Heart
To find recreation in amusement is not happiness. Blaise Pascal - Pleasure
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. Blaise Pascal - Enthusiasm
Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. Blaise Pascal - Thoughts and Thinking
The property of power is to protect. Blaise Pascal - Power
Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. Blaise Pascal - Mediocrity
We like to be deceived. Blaise Pascal - Deception
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. Blaise Pascal - Contradiction
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. Blaise Pascal - Kindness
The gospel to me is simply irresistible. Blaise Pascal - Gospel
To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. Blaise Pascal - Moderation
The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny. Blaise Pascal - Unity
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants. Blaise Pascal - Freedom
Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience. Blaise Pascal - Conscience
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. Blaise Pascal - Fame
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone. Blaise Pascal - Evil
The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. Blaise Pascal - Choice
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. Blaise Pascal - Science and Scientists
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world. Blaise Pascal - Gossip
If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists. Blaise Pascal - God
If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. Blaise Pascal - Gossip
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. Blaise Pascal - Conflict
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them. Blaise Pascal - Faith
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread. Blaise Pascal - Space
Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny. Blaise Pascal - Unity
We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so. Blaise Pascal - Life and Living
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. Blaise Pascal - Influence
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. Blaise Pascal - Fame
The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. Blaise Pascal - Effort
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. Blaise Pascal - Thoughts and Thinking
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. Blaise Pascal - Faith
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. Blaise Pascal - Jesus Christ
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher. Blaise Pascal - Philosophers and Philosophy
If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace. Blaise Pascal - Belief
There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy. Blaise Pascal - People
Imagination decides everything. Blaise Pascal - Imagination
People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found out by others. Blaise Pascal - Persuasion
We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting. Blaise Pascal - Listening
Our nature consist in motion; complete rest is death. Blaise Pascal - Rest
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter. Blaise Pascal - Writers and Writing
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person. Blaise Pascal - Style
If you would have people speak well of you, then do not speak well of yourself. Blaise Pascal - Humility
All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone. Blaise Pascal - Misers and Misery
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. Blaise Pascal - Belief
I have made this letter a rather long one, only because I didn't have the leisure to make it shorter. Blaise Pascal - Wordiness
The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first. Blaise Pascal - Writers and Writing
The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men. Blaise Pascal - Originality
Law, without force, is impotent. Blaise Pascal - Law and Lawyers
The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries. Blaise Pascal - Philosophers and Philosophy
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms. Blaise Pascal - Evil
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. Blaise Pascal - Self-discovery
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before. Blaise Pascal - Love
What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire. Blaise Pascal - Painters and Painting
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. Blaise Pascal - Admiration
Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world. Blaise Pascal - Life and Living
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. Blaise Pascal - Books and Reading
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other. Blaise Pascal - Faith
It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them. Blaise Pascal - Ceremony
It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed. Blaise Pascal - Obedience
Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us. Blaise Pascal - Beauty
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth. Blaise Pascal - Rest
The war existing between the senses and reason. Blaise Pascal - Conflict
Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden. Blaise Pascal - Deeds and Good Deeds
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. Blaise Pascal - Speakers and Speaking
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. Blaise Pascal - Religion
We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured. Blaise Pascal - Infallibility
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.Blaise Pascal - Habit
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world. Blaise Pascal - Imagination
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason. Blaise Pascal - Faith
Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this. Blaise Pascal - Thoughts and Thinking
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness. Blaise Pascal - Bores and Boredom
Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience. Blaise Pascal - Experience
Habit is the second nature which destroys the first. Blaise Pascal - Habit
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous. Blaise Pascal - Sin
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. Blaise Pascal - Passion
We must learn our limits. We are all something but none of us are everything. Blaise Pascal - Possibilities
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