Blaise Pascal quotes

“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.”

— Blaise Pascal

“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.”

— Blaise Pascal

“The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.”

— Blaise Pascal

“The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.”

— Blaise Pascal

“The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.”

— Blaise Pascal

“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.”

— Blaise Pascal

“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.”

— Blaise Pascal

“We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.”

— Blaise Pascal

“When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.”

— Blaise Pascal