Blaise Pascal Quotes


The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways. Blaise Pascal Heart 279
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. Blaise Pascal Power 248
Law, without force, is impotent. Blaise Pascal Law 208
What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy. Judge of all things, imbecile worm of the earth; depositary of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error: the pride and refuse of the universe. Blaise Pascal Mankind 178
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. Blaise Pascal Force 158
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. Blaise Pascal Kindness 146
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. Blaise Pascal Love 145
The last act is bloody, however fine the rest of the play. They throw earth over your head and it is finished forever. Blaise Pascal Death 137
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. Blaise Pascal Religion 127
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. Blaise Pascal Drifting 127
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not. Blaise Pascal Heart 125
All of our dignity consists in thought. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morality. Blaise Pascal Thought 123
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. Blaise Pascal Contradiction 119
We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart, and it is from this last that we know first principles; and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to combat them. The skeptics who desire truth alone labor in vain. Blaise Pascal Truth 117
If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists. Blaise Pascal God 117
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 Thought 117
We never love a person, but only qualities. Blaise Pascal Love 113
Our nature consist in motion; complete rest is death. Blaise Pascal Rest 113
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous. Blaise Pascal Men 113
There are only two kinds of people we can call reasonable either those who serve God with their whole heart because they know him or those who search after him with all their heart because they do not know him. Blaise Pascal Religious 111
Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm. Blaise Pascal Abandoned 109
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher. Blaise Pascal Time 109
We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike. Blaise Pascal Alike 105
The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men. Blaise Pascal Innovation 102
We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem. Blaise Pascal Respect 101
Love knows no limit to its endurance no end to its trust no fading of its hope it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen. Blaise Pascal Quotes 100
Grace is indeed required to turn a man into a saint; and he who doubts this does not know what either a man or a saint is. Blaise Pascal Kindness 99
Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience. Blaise Pascal Conscience 97
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 Faith 96
That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it. Blaise Pascal God 95
We are generally better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others. Blaise Pascal Reason 95
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. Blaise Pascal Uncategorized 94
We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it. Blaise Pascal Conceal 94
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 94
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. Blaise Pascal Heart 93
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 93
The multitude which is not brought to act as unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny. Blaise Pascal Man 92
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. Blaise Pascal Add 92
Fire. God of Abraham God of Isaac God of Jacob not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen. Blaise Pascal Fire 90
There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose; without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he feels his own nothingness, isolation, insignificance, dependent nature, powerlessness, emptiness. Immediately there issue from his soul ennui, sadness, chagrin, vexation, despair. Blaise Pascal Rest 89
Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it. Blaise Pascal Truth 89
I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise. Blaise Pascal Stupidity 88
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. Blaise Pascal Evil 87
Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired : even I who write this, and you who read this. Blaise Pascal Vanity 83
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 82
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? Blaise Pascal First 81
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. Blaise Pascal Nature 81
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. Blaise Pascal Desires 80
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants. Blaise Pascal Freedom 80
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. Blaise Pascal Men 79

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