Quotes By Blaise Pascal

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

The self is hateful.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Imagination decides everything.

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

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

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

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

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

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