Blaise Pascal Quotes And Sayings

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.

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.

Men Blaspheme What They Do Not Know.

The Supreme Function Of Reason Is To Show Man That Some Things Are Beyond Reason.

Words Differently Arranged Have A Different Meaning, And Meanings Differently Arranged Have Different Effects.

Men Are So Necessarily Mad, That Not To Be Mad Would Amount To Another Form Of Madness.

Justice And Truth Are Too Such Subtle Points That Our Tools Are Too Blunt To Touch Them Accurately.

The Finite Is Annihilated In The Presence Of The Infinite, And Becomes A Pure Nothing. So Our Spirit Before God, So Our Justice Before Divine Justice.

Custom Is Our Nature. What Are Our Natural Principles But Principles Of Custom?

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?

People Are Generally Better Persuaded By The Reasons Which They Have Themselves Discovered Than By Those Which Have Come In To The Mind Of Others.

Love Has Reasons Which Reason Cannot Understand.

He That Takes Truth For His Guide, And Duty For His End, May Safely Trust To God's Providence To Lead Him Aright.

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.

Contradiction Is Not A Sign Of Falsity, Nor The Lack Of Contradiction A Sign Of Truth.

It Is Not Good To Be Too Free. It Is Not Good To Have Everything One Wants.

The Gospel To Me Is Simply Irresistible.

I Maintain That, If Everyone Knew What Others Said About Him, There Would Not Be Four Friends In The World.

Reason Commands Us Far More Imperiously Than A Master; For In Disobeying The One We Are Unfortunate, And In Disobeying The Other We Are Fools.

Human Beings Must Be Known To Be Loved; But Divine Beings Must Be Loved To Be Known.

If All Men Knew What Others Say Of Them, There Would Not Be Four Friends In The World.

The Present Letter Is A Very Long One, Simply Because I Had No Leisure To Make It Shorter.

Justice Without Force Is Powerless; Force Without Justice Is Tyrannical.

In Faith There Is Enough Light For Those Who Want To Believe And Enough Shadows To Blind Those Who Don't.

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 Relations Of All Those Things. And Then We Shall Be Very Cautious.

It Is The Fight Alone That Pleases Us, Not The Victory.

Earnestness Is Enthusiasm Tempered By Reason.

Too Much And Too Little Wine. Give Him None, He Cannot Find Truth; Give Him Too Much, The Same.

People Are Usually More Convinced By Reasons They Discovered Themselves Than By Those Found By Others.

Men Never Do Evil So Completely And Cheerfully As When They Do It From Religious Conviction.

I Have Discovered That All Human Evil Comes From This, Man's Being Unable To Sit Still In A Room.

Imagination Disposes Of Everything; It Creates Beauty, Justice, And Happiness, Which Are Everything In This World.

We Conceal It From Ourselves In Vain - We Must Always Love Something. In Those Matters Seemingly Removed From Love, The Feeling Is Secretly To Be Found, And Man Cannot Possibly Live For A Moment Without It.

We Know The Truth, Not Only By The Reason, But Also By The Heart.

Since We Cannot Know All That There Is To Be Known About Anything, We Ought To Know A Little About Everything.

Evil Is Easy, And Has Infinite Forms.

We Are Only Falsehood, Duplicity, Contradiction; We Both Conceal And Disguise Ourselves From Ourselves.

Desire And Force Between Them Are Responsible For All Our Actions; Desire Causes Our Voluntary Acts, Force Our Involuntary.

Faith Certainly Tells Us What The Senses Do Not, But Not The Contrary Of What They See; It Is Above, Not Against Them.

Two Things Control Men's Nature, Instinct And Experience.

Even Those Who Write Against Fame Wish For The Fame Of Having Written Well, And Those Who Read Their Works Desire The Fame Of Having Read Them.

Jesus Is The God Whom We Can Approach Without Pride And Before Whom We Can Humble Ourselves Without Despair.

The Charm Of Fame Is So Great That We Like Every Object To Which It Is Attached, Even Death.

Law, Without Force, Is Impotent.

We Only Consult The Ear Because The Heart Is Wanting.

The Eternal Silence Of These Infinite Spaces Frightens Me.

Nothing Is So Intolerable To Man As Being Fully At Rest, Without A Passion, Without Business, Without Entertainment, Without Care.

Men Despise Religion. They Hate It And Are Afraid It May Be True.

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.

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.