Quotes By Blaise Pascal

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

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

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

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.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

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

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

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

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

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

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

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

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Vanity is but the surface.

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

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

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

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

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

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

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

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

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

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