Blaise Pascal quotes

“Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.”

— Blaise Pascal

“The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”

— Blaise Pascal

“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.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Law, without force, is impotent.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Little things console us because little things afflict us.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

“We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.”

— Blaise Pascal

“We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.”

— Blaise Pascal

“You always admire what you really don't understand.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

“Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”

— Blaise Pascal

“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.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

“We never love a person, but only qualities.”

— Blaise Pascal

“It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.”

— Blaise Pascal

“That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.”

— Blaise Pascal

“The self is hateful.”

— Blaise Pascal

“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.”

— Blaise Pascal

“A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?”

— Blaise Pascal

“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.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.”

— Blaise Pascal