Quotes By Blaise Pascal

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

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.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

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.