Blaise Pascal

I know whom I have believed.

— Blaise Pascal

Law, without force, is impotent.

— Blaise Pascal

“Too much clarity darkens.”

— Blaise Pascal

We like to be deceived.

— Blaise Pascal

Continued eloquence is wearisome.

— Blaise Pascal

Vanity is but the surface.

— Blaise Pascal

The self is hateful.

— Blaise Pascal

Faith is a gift of God.

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.

— Blaise Pascal

Le moi est ha|«s sable. The self is hateful.

— Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

— Blaise Pascal

You always admire what you really dont understand.

— Blaise Pascal

Our natures lie in motion, without which we die.

— Blaise Pascal

“I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.”

— Blaise Pascal

Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.

— Blaise Pascal

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

— Blaise Pascal

No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal…

— Blaise Pascal

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as…

— Blaise Pascal

Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy…

— Blaise Pascal

“All their principles are true, sceptics, stoics, atheists, etc...but their conclusions are false, because the contrary principles are also true.”

— Blaise Pascal

All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.

— Blaise Pascal

The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth.…

— Blaise Pascal

There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which…

— Blaise Pascal

I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest…

— Blaise Pascal

“Know then, proud man, what a paradox you are to yourself. Be humble, impotent reason! Be silent, feeble nature! Learn that man…

— Blaise Pascal

“What sort of freak then is man! How novel, how monstrous, how chaotic, how paradoxical, how prodigious! Judge of all things, feeble…

— Blaise Pascal

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much…

— Blaise Pascal

Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause…

— Blaise Pascal

All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves…

— Blaise Pascal

“The Christian religion alone has been able to cure these twin vices, not by using one to expel the other according to…

— Blaise Pascal

“Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and lofty majesty, let him turn his gaze away from the…

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“Thus I stretch out my arms to my Saviour, who, after being foretold for four thousand years, came on earth to die…

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“When I consider the brief span of my life absorbed into the eternity which precedes and will succeed it— memoria hospitis unius…

— Blaise Pascal

“Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole…

— Blaise Pascal

I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate…

— Blaise Pascal

“If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they…

— Blaise Pascal

It is dangerous to tell the people that the laws are unjust; for they obey them only because they think them just.…

— Blaise Pascal