74 quotes by Blaise Pascal

“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?” — Blaise Pascal

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“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

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“Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.” — Blaise Pascal

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“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

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“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

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“Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.” — Blaise Pascal

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“The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.” — Blaise Pascal

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“I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.” — Blaise Pascal

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“The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.” — Blaise Pascal

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“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

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“Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth give him too much, the same.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.” — Blaise Pascal

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“It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.” — Blaise Pascal

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“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.” — Blaise Pascal

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“That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.” — Blaise Pascal

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“It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.” — Blaise Pascal

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