Quotes By Blaise Pascal

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

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

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

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

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.

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

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

We never love a person, but only qualities.