Top 748 Quotes & Sayings by Blaise Pascal
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Last updated on November 22, 2024.
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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.
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.
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
Little things console us because little things afflict us.
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
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.
Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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.
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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?
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
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.
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Imagination decides everything.
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
Law, without force, is impotent.
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
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.
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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