Blaise Pascal Quotes

"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."

"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing."

"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is."

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."

"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."

"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't."

"The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me."

"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."

"The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason."

"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical."

"Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death."

"The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason."

"Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God."

"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."

"All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room."

"It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory."

"Love has reasons which reason cannot understand."

"Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary."

"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?"

"Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known."

"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."

"Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just."

"We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end."

"If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future."

"There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him."

"People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others."

"Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts."

"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed."

"Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason."

"When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before."