Blaise Pascal Quotes

We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.

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

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.

Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition

The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.

The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.

No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.

Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

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.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man.

The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.

Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.

If ignorance were bliss, he'd be a blister

When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.

No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.

Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities. Therefore those who have known God, without knowing their wretchedness, have not glorified Him, but have glorified themselves.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.

All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

Imagination decides everything.

Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.

We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who are rushing on, by acting as a fixed point.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

L'homme n'est ni ange ni be" te, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la be" te. Man is neither angel nor beast.Unfortunately, he who wants to act the angel often acts the beast.

Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.

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?