Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic theologian. Profoundly inspirational Blaise Pascal quotes will encourage you to think a little deeper than you usually would and broaden your perspective.
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Famous Blaise Pascal Quotes
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness. Blaise Pascal
Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years. Blaise Pascal
We never love a person, but only qualities. Blaise Pascal
There is a God shaped vacuum in every heart. Blaise Pascal
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. Blaise Pascal
There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first is rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy. Blaise Pascal
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. Blaise Pascal
In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart. Blaise Pascal
Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought. Blaise Pascal
Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness. Blaise Pascal
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness. Blaise Pascal
Once your soul has been enlarged by truth, it can never return to its original size. Blaise Pascal
Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. Blaise Pascal
Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great since I do them in your name! Blaise Pascal
Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical. Blaise Pascal
We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth. Blaise Pascal
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. Blaise Pascal
The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. Blaise Pascal
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. Blaise Pascal
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason. Blaise Pascal
It is false zeal to keep truth while wounding charity. Blaise Pascal
One half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts. Blaise Pascal
Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years. Blaise Pascal
Do you wish people would think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself. Blaise Pascal
And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed? Blaise Pascal
Happiness is neither within us nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.Blaise Pascal
Do you wish people would think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself. Blaise Pascal
Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives. Blaise Pascal
Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder. Blaise Pascal
Human beings must be known to be loved, but Divine beings must be loved to be known. Blaise Pascal
Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. Blaise Pascal
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. Blaise Pascal
Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere. Blaise Pascal
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. Blaise Pascal
Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree. Blaise Pascal
We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are. Blaise Pascal
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all. Blaise Pascal
Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder. Blaise Pascal
In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart. Blaise Pascal
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. Blaise Pascal Quotes
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves. Blaise Pascal
Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it. Blaise Pascal
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. Blaise Pascal
Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy. Blaise Pascal
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter. Blaise Pascal
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason. Blaise Pascal
Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it. Blaise Pascal
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good natured. They also produce their own image on men’s souls, and a beautiful image it is. Blaise Pascal
We run carelessly to the precipice after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it. Blaise Pascal
The Christian religion teaches me two points that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him. Blaise Pascal
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything. Blaise Pascal
The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble. Blaise Pascal
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. Blaise Pascal
No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized. Blaise Pascal
We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are. Blaise Pascal
All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. Blaise Pascal
Imagination decides everything. Blaise Pascal
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. Blaise Pascal
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. Blaise Pascal
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. Blaise Pascal
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. Blaise Pascal
Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years. Blaise Pascal
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism. Blaise Pascal
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t. Blaise Pascal
Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. Blaise Pascal
I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you. Blaise Pascal
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not. Blaise Pascal
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. Blaise Pascal
The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences. Blaise Pascal
In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart. Blaise Pascal
The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog. Blaise Pascal
The heart has its reasons for which reason knows nothing. Blaise Pascal
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. Blaise Pascal
There is a God shaped vacuum in every heart. Blaise Pascal
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before. Blaise Pascal
Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen. Blaise Pascal
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed. Blaise Pascal
If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything. Blaise Pascal
If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it’s possible, in everything. Blaise Pascal
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive. Blaise Pascal
A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us. Blaise Pascal
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves. Blaise Pascal
All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone. Blaise Pascal
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. Blaise Pascal
The only shame is to have none. Blaise Pascal
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter. Blaise Pascal
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. Blaise Pascal
Faith is a gift of God. Blaise Pascal
Brave deeds are wasted when hidden. Blaise Pascal
All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone. Blaise Pascal
Through space, the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought, I comprehend the world. Blaise Pascal
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too. Blaise Pascal
We like to be deceived. Blaise Pascal
Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ. Blaise Pascal
The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family. Blaise Pascal
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. Blaise Pascal
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher. Blaise Pascal
Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen. Blaise Pascal
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched. Blaise Pascal
The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which feels God, and not Reason. This, then, is perfect faith: God felt in the heart. Blaise Pascal
The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever. Blaise Pascal
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. Blaise Pascal
Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen. Blaise Pascal
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. Blaise Pascal
To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher. Blaise Pascal
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. Blaise Pascal
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries. Blaise Pascal
If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing. Blaise Pascal
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants. Blaise Pascal
I know whom I have believed. Blaise Pascal
