Pascal Quotes

La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

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

Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.

We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.

Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future.

Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.

The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]

Love was more than blind. It was deaf and dumb, too. It was catatonic. It was vegetative.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

The property of power is to protect.

Guilt is a very good thing if it is shared by others.

Remorse is extremely useful for a generation which has in fact dirtied its hands but for the next generation you cannot ask, for instance, young Germans today to feel guilty about Hitlerism.

The stream is always purer at its source.

There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.

I am still there, at that distant place in time, I never left it, but live expanded in the past, or out of it.

Human beings can't bear silence.It would mean that they would bear themselves.

The truth is, that what women have to do is not work for less money. They have to walk away.

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

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

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.

Great and small suffer the same mishaps.

Console-toi, tu ne me chercherais pas si tu ne m'avais trouve . Comfort yourself.You would not seek me if you had not found me.

How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.

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

Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?

The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of justice.

Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.

He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.

The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.

The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony

Il est non seulement impossible, mais inutile de conna|"tre Dieu sans Je sus-Christ. It is not only impossible, but also useless to recognize God without Jesus.

The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.

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