Blaise Pascal Quotes

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.

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.

Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference.

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

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.

Le silence e ternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.

I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.

What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.

Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.

Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.

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.

Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal

What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.

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

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Faith is a gift of God.

We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.

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

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

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

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

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

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

If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.