Blaise Pascal Quotes

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

~ Blaise Pascal

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

~ Blaise Pascal

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

~ Blaise Pascal

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

~ Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

~ Blaise Pascal

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

~ Blaise Pascal

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

~ Blaise Pascal

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

~ Blaise Pascal

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

~ Blaise Pascal

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

~ Blaise Pascal

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

~ Blaise Pascal

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

~ Blaise Pascal

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

~ Blaise Pascal

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

~ Blaise Pascal

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

~ Blaise Pascal

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

~ 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!

~ Blaise Pascal

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

~ Blaise Pascal

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

~ Blaise Pascal

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

~ Blaise Pascal

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

~ Blaise Pascal

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

~ Blaise Pascal

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

~ 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.

~ Blaise Pascal

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

~ 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.

~ Blaise Pascal

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

~ Blaise Pascal

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

~ Blaise Pascal

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

~ Blaise Pascal

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

~ 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.

~ Blaise Pascal

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

~ Blaise Pascal

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

~ 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.

~ Blaise Pascal

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

~ Blaise Pascal

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

~ Blaise Pascal

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

~ Blaise Pascal

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

~ Blaise Pascal

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

~ 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.

~ Blaise Pascal