Famous Blaise Pascal Quotations

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"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."
by Blaise Pascal
"It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory."
by Blaise Pascal
"The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death."
by Blaise Pascal
"The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread."
by Blaise Pascal
"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."
by Blaise Pascal
"The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory."
by Blaise Pascal
"There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous."
by Blaise Pascal
"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."
by Blaise Pascal
"We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it."
by Blaise Pascal
"Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason."
by Blaise Pascal
"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."
by Blaise Pascal
"It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants."
by Blaise Pascal
"Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care."
by Blaise Pascal
"Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death."
by Blaise Pascal
"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."
by Blaise Pascal
"Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true."
by Blaise Pascal
"Law, without force, is impotent."
by Blaise Pascal
"I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world."
by Blaise Pascal
"Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other."
by Blaise Pascal
"Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them."
by Blaise Pascal
"Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world."
by Blaise Pascal
"The gospel to me is simply irresistible."
by Blaise Pascal
"You always admire what you really don't understand."
by Blaise Pascal
"A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us."
by Blaise Pascal
"All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room."
by Blaise Pascal
"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."
by Blaise Pascal
"All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling."
by Blaise Pascal
"All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone."
by Blaise Pascal
"As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all."
by Blaise Pascal
"Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree."
by Blaise Pascal
"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."
by Blaise Pascal
"Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and a triangle whose sides and angle were all equal. He discovered these things for himself and then began to seek the relationship which existed between them. He did not know any mathematical terms and so he made up his own. Using these names he made axioms and finally developed perfect demonstrations, until he had come to the thirty-second proposition of Euclid."
by C. M. Cox
"By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn."
by Blaise Pascal
"Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them."
by Blaise Pascal
"Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves."
by Blaise Pascal
"Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves."
by Blaise Pascal
"Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones."
by Blaise Pascal
"Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm."
by Blaise Pascal
"Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?"
by Blaise Pascal
"Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary."
by Blaise Pascal
"Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself."
by Blaise Pascal
"Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts."
by Blaise Pascal
"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."
by Blaise Pascal
"Evil is easy, and has infinite forms."
by Blaise Pascal
"Fear not, provided you fear but if you fear not, then fear."
by Blaise Pascal
"Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back."
by Blaise Pascal
"For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed."
by Blaise Pascal
"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."
by Blaise Pascal
"Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us."
by Blaise Pascal
"He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright."
by Blaise Pascal
"I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute."
by Blaise Pascal
"I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room."
by Blaise Pascal
"I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter."
by Blaise Pascal
"I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter."
by Blaise Pascal
"I have made this letter long because i have not the time to make it shorter."
by Blaise Pascal
"I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter."
by Blaise Pascal
"I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world"
by Blaise Pascal
"I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short"
by Blaise Pascal
"If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world."
by Blaise Pascal
"If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?"
by Blaise Pascal
"If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy."
by Blaise Pascal
"If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!"
by Blaise Pascal
"If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future."
by Blaise Pascal
"If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists."
by Blaise Pascal
"Imagination decides everything."
by Blaise Pascal
"In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious."
by Blaise Pascal
"It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer."
by Blaise Pascal
"It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false."
by Blaise Pascal
"It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist."
by Blaise Pascal
"Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair."
by Blaise Pascal
"Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately."
by Blaise Pascal
"Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just."
by Blaise Pascal
"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."
by Blaise Pascal
"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical."
by Blaise Pascal
"Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established."
by Blaise Pascal
"Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is."
by Blaise Pascal
"Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is, but let us consider the two possibilities. If you gain, you gain all if you lose you lose nothing. Hesitate not, then, to wager that He is."
by Blaise Pascal
"Little things console us because little things afflict us."
by Blaise Pascal
"Love has reasons which reason cannot understand."
by Blaise Pascal
"Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being."
by Blaise Pascal
"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed."
by Blaise Pascal
"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed"
by Blaise Pascal
"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this."
by Blaise Pascal
"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed."
by Blaise Pascal
"Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good."
by Blaise Pascal
"Man's nature is not always to advance; it has its advances and retreats"
by Blaise Pascal
"Man's greatness lies in his power of thought."
by Blaise Pascal
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
by Blaise Pascal
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction"
by Blaise Pascal
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction."
by Blaise Pascal
"Men blaspheme what they do not know."
by Blaise Pascal
"Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness."
by Blaise Pascal
"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."
by Blaise Pascal
"Nature has perfection, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image."
by Blaise Pascal
"Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed."
by Blaise Pascal
"Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth."
by Blaise Pascal
"Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong."
by Blaise Pascal
"Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way."
by Blaise Pascal
"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."
by Blaise Pascal
"Our heart has its reasons that reason cannot know."
by Blaise Pascal


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