Quotes By Blaise Pascal

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The only shame is to have none.

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

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.

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.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

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.

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

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

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

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

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

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

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

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

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

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

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