Blaise Pascal Quotes
When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.Blaise Pascal
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn.Blaise Pascal
The Knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.Blaise Pascal
Nature has perfection, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image.Blaise Pascal
I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.Blaise Pascal
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.Blaise Pascal
Our heart has its reasons that reason cannot know.Blaise Pascal
We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.Blaise Pascal
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.Blaise Pascal
Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.Blaise Pascal
Fear not, provided you fear but if you fear not, then fear.Blaise Pascal
The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.Blaise Pascal
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
We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart.Blaise Pascal
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.Blaise Pascal
Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is, but let us consider the two possibilities. If you gain, you gain all if you lose you lose nothing. Hesitate not, then, to wager that He is.Blaise Pascal
Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it.Blaise Pascal
If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.Blaise Pascal
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.Blaise Pascal
The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion.Blaise Pascal
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.Blaise Pascal
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.Blaise Pascal
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.Blaise Pascal
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.Blaise Pascal
We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.Blaise Pascal
We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.Blaise Pascal
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.Blaise Pascal
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.Blaise Pascal
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.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
