Quotes By Blaise Pascal

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

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

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

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?

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Imagination decides everything.

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

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

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.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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