Blaise Pascal Quotes

Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French Philosopher
Born: Jun 19, 1623
Died: Aug 19, 1662
Faith God Man Men Nothing Truth
Related authors: Albert Camus Henri Bergson Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Paul Sartre Michel de Montaigne Montesquieu Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Simone Weil
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. Blaise Pascal
Great Intelligence Small Minds Extraordinary Minds Great Minds Small Concerned Ordinary
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. Blaise Pascal
Thoughts Communication Painting Eloquence
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
Truth Faith You Wise Will Lose Nothing Hesitation He Come Without Wager Proved Proves False Exists Cannot Gain Then Gamble Granted Belief Harm
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 Truth Is Unless We Cannot Obscure Know Falsehood Times Established Cannot
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. Blaise Pascal
Alone Men Sit Able Miseries Quiet Being Room Derive
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. Blaise Pascal
Evil Men Conviction Religious Never Cheerfully
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. Blaise Pascal
Justice Tyrannical Powerless Force Without
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 Think Righteous Kinds Only Sinners Who Two
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. Blaise Pascal
Faith Light Believe Enough Those Shadows Blind Want Who
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? Blaise Pascal
War Me Man Other Side Mine Ruler Though River He Him Stupider Because Quarrel His Than Anything Lives Right
All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room. Blaise Pascal
Man Cause Evil Single Sit Still Human Inability Room
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
Moving On Time Change Offended Neither More Longer Heals Quarrels Nor Offender Same Any Persons Themselves
If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists. Blaise Pascal
You Lose Nothing Hesitation He Without Exists Gain Then
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. Blaise Pascal
God Faith Gift Latter Proof Human Different Former
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. Blaise Pascal
God Humble Pride Before Despair Approach Ourselves Without Whom Jesus
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known. Blaise Pascal
Religion Must Divine Known Human Human Beings Loved Beings
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before. Blaise Pascal
Love Before Ourselves Seem Were Quite Different
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
Good Tired Our Futile Out True Redeemer Arms May After Search Stretch
Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion. Blaise Pascal
Fault Illusion Evil Add Further Faults Recognize Voluntary Since Greater Greater Evil Unwilling Still Truly Them Full
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. Blaise Pascal
You Yourself People Speak Wish Think Well
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason. Blaise Pascal
Man Some Some Things Beyond Supreme Show Reason Function Things
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. Blaise Pascal
Man Evil Sit Unable Still Discovered Human Being Room
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others. Blaise Pascal
People Better Mind Others Those Generally Come Discovered Than Which Themselves Persuaded Reasons
Little things console us because little things afflict us. Blaise Pascal
Little Things Console Because Afflict Little Us Things
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness. Blaise Pascal
Madness Men Mad Would Another Form Amount Necessarily
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
God Heart People Those Kinds Seek Know Call Him Because Reasonable Who Serve Two
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