Quotes By Blaise Pascal

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

We never love a person, but only qualities.

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?

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.

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

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

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.

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

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

The self is hateful.

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

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.

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.

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.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.