Blaise Pascal Quotes

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.

Lust and force are the source of all our actions lust causes voluntary actions force involuntary ones.

Continuity in everything is unpleasant.

I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts but by his ordinary doing.

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

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

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.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much

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.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

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.

As we are always preparing to be happy it is inevitable that we should never be so.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can go only so far but faith has no limits.

Kind words produce their images on men's souls.

It is the heart which experiences God and not the reason.

If a soldier or labourer complains of the hardship of his lot set him to do nothing.