Quotes By 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?

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

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.

Imagination decides everything.

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

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

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

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

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

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

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

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

The only shame is to have none.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

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

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

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

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