Quotes By Blaise Pascal

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.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

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.

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.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

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

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Law, without force, is impotent.

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.

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.

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