Quotes by Blaise Pascal

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

— Blaise Pascal

Love

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

— Blaise Pascal

Wisdom

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

— Blaise Pascal

Wisdom

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.

— Blaise Pascal

Truth

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

— Blaise Pascal

Wisdom

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

— Blaise Pascal

Wisdom

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

— Blaise Pascal

Love

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

— Blaise Pascal

Love

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

— Blaise Pascal

Wisdom

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

— Blaise Pascal

Wisdom

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

— Blaise Pascal

Wisdom

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

— Blaise Pascal

Wisdom

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

Love

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

— Blaise Pascal

Wisdom

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

— Blaise Pascal

Wisdom

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

— Blaise Pascal

Wisdom

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

— Blaise Pascal

Life

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

— Blaise Pascal

Courage

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

— Blaise Pascal

Happiness

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

— Blaise Pascal

Wisdom

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

— Blaise Pascal

Love

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

— Blaise Pascal

Life

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

— Blaise Pascal

Wisdom

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

— Blaise Pascal

Wisdom