Blaise Pascal famous quotes

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Kindness #Character #Cost

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Humble #Humility #Thinking

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Addiction #Limits

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Truth #Soul #Return

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that religion is not contrary to reason, but worthy of reverence and respect. Next make it attractive, make good men wish it were true and then show that it is.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Hate #Men #Good Man

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Lying #Greatness #Men

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Faith #Different #Proof

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Love #Inspirational #Life

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

#Beautiful #Meaningful #Kindness

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Math #Intelligence #Mind

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

#Love #Inspirational #Passion

Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Beautiful #Men #People

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Reason

What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Earth #Divinity #Bears

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

#Men #Evil #Rooms

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Strength #Umpires #Justice

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Love #Native American #Religion

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Inspirational #Life #Noble

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Faith #Inspiration #Men

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Mind #Chess #Gymnasiums

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

#Inspirational #Sad #Religious

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Spiritual #Heart #Vacuums

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Soul #Feelings #Matter

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

#Nature #Firsts #Habit

Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Jesus #Life And Death #Christ

Kind words produce their images on men's souls.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Men #Soul #Kind

The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Thinking #Omnipotence #Imagination

Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Jesus #Deeds #Littles

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

#Powerful #Justice #Together

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Friendship #Emotional #Behinds

When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Doe #Too Much #Enough

I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Giving Up #Believe #Four

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Philosophy #Ridicule

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Evil #Infinite #Easy

Imagination decides everything.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Inspirational #Teacher #Imagination

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Space #Atoms #World

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

#Sailing #Spheres #Driven

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Giving #Vision #Sincere

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Men #Differences #Ordinary

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

#Stupid #Justice #Tools

Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Happiness #Searching For Happiness #Exception

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Long #Purpose #Suits

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

#Inspirational #Being Yourself #Personality

Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Beautiful #Kindness #Men

Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Jesus #Enemy #Islam

To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Religious #Men #Grace

In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Beautiful #Heart #Difficult Times

We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Forgiveness #Vices #May

I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Doe #God Exists

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
-- Blaise Pascal

#God

It is much better to know something about everything than to know everything about one thing.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Knowledge

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Misery #Distraction

Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Giving #Complaining #Thanks

If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Inspirational #Writing #Letters

Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of Nature; and from the tiny cell where he lodges, to wit the Universe, weigh at their true worth earth, kingdoms, towns, himself. What is a man face to face with infinity?
-- Blaise Pascal

#Men #Reality #Cells

It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Government #Space #Atoms

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Men #Doe #Rooms

The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Intelligent #Men #Originality

No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Believe #Heart #Men

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Knowing #Sin #Wells

Happiness is neither within us only, or without us; it is the union of ourselves with God
-- Blaise Pascal

#Happiness #Unions

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Long #Letters #Leisure

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Faith #Perception

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Love #Inspiring #Inspirational Life

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

#Life #Grief #Time Heals

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Struggle #Effort #Victory

All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Struggle #Blessing #Boredom

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

#Inspirational #Strength #Wisdom

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Friendship #Gossip #World

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Depression #Men #Mad

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Irresistible

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Nature #Math #Garden

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Knowledge #Science #Littles

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 #May #Trust In God

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Inspirational #Happiness #Beauty

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Painting #Eloquence

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Tired #May #Arms

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Math #Men #Logic

You always admire what you really don't understand.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Inspirational #Fake People #Appreciation

All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Blessing #Men #Knowing

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Philosophy #Philosopher

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Letting Go #Being Alone #Feelings

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Business #Passion #Men

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

#God #Spiritual #Jesus

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Inspirational #God #Friday

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

#Inspirational #Peace #Hipster

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Art #Destiny #Giving

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

#Faith #Wise #Gains

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Fear #Hate #Men

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Death #Dying

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

#Life #Faith #Christian

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Different

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

#Love #Truth Is #Obscure

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.
-- Blaise Pascal

#God #Humorous #Gains

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Men #Thinking #Two

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Men #Matter #Strange

It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Song #Writing #Impact

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
-- Blaise Pascal

#People #Belief #Attractive

[I feel] engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Space #Silence #Alarms

Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Strong #Justice #Social Justice