Quotes By Blaise Pascal

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.

Imagination decides everything.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

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.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

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.

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.

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.

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

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

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

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

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

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

The only shame is to have none.

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

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

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.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

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