Blaise Pascal quotes

“The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

“The gospel to me is simply irresistible.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

“Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.”

— Blaise Pascal

“We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.”

— Blaise Pascal

“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.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

“As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

“If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.”

— Blaise Pascal

“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.”

— Blaise Pascal

“The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.”

— Blaise Pascal

“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.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

“Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

“Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

“Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

“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.”

— Blaise Pascal

“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?”

— Blaise Pascal