Quotes By Blaise Pascal

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

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.

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.

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!