Quotes By Blaise Pascal

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

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

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Law, without force, is impotent.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

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

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

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

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

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

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

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

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

We never love a person, but only qualities.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.