“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”
– Blaise Pascal
“We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth give him too much, the same.”
– 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
“Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.”
– Blaise Pascal
“He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.”
– 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
“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
“He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.”
– Blaise Pascal
“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.”
– Blaise Pascal
“I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”
– Blaise Pascal
“To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”
– Blaise Pascal
“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.”
– Blaise Pascal
“The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.”
– Blaise Pascal
“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.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.”
– Blaise Pascal
“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!”
– Blaise Pascal
“Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?”
– Blaise Pascal
“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?”
– Blaise Pascal
“Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.”
– Blaise Pascal