Famous Quotes

Quotes by Blaise Pascal

• That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
• The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
• 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.
• The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
• The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
• The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
• 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.
• The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
• The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
• The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
• The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
• The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
• There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
• Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth give him too much, the same.
• Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
• Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.