Blaise Pascal Quotes and Quotations
No animal admires another animal.
The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.
Man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty, insufficient, dependent, ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom, gloom, sorrow, chagrin, resentment and despair.
If a soldier or labourer complains of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.
Two things control man's nature: instinct and experience.
If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.
All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.
Let it not be said that I have said nothing new. The arrangement of the material is new.
I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter.
All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.
Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they employ, they aim at the same end.
Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.
Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
If we all told what we know of one another, there would not be four friends in the world
It is the heart which experiences God, not the reason.
Faith declares what the senses do not see, but not the contrary of what they see.
Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can go only so far, but faith has no limits.
It is the heart which experiences God, and not the reason.
It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.
Faith is a gift of God.
Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.
The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing.
As we are always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.
The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.
Continuity in everything is unpleasant.
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relation of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
It is the heart which experiences God, not the reason.
The heart has reasons which reason cannot understand.
All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they aim at the same end.
Lust and force are the source of all our actions; lust causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves; we desire to live an imaginary life in the minds of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine.
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
Losses are comparative, imagination only makes them of any moment.
Losses are comparative, imagination only makes them of any moment.
Losses are comparative, only imagination makes them of any moment.