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Blaise Pascal Quotes

Blaise Pascal

French mathematician, physicist and philosopher

Nationality: French
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Birth: 1623-1662
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot belie
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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.
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Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.
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The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
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We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
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The war existing between the senses and reason.
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Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.
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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
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Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.
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Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
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The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
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Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.
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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
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Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
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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.
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
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The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
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Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
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I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
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If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
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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.
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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.
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If you would have people speak well of you, then do not speak well of yourself.
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Imagination decides everything.
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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.
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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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Law, without force, is impotent.
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Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.
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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
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Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
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All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.
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To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
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The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men.
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What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third fooli
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People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found out by others.
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To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
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The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.
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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
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We must learn our limits. We are all something but none of us are everything.
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The property of power is to protect.
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If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.
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Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
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Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
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When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.
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I have made this letter a rather long one, only because I didn't have the leisure to make it shorter.
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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.
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