Quotes Blaise Pascal

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us....

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to...

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a qu...

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling....

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignoranc...

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree...

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved,...

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is t...

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to ki...

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no a...

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; c...

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to ...

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of cont...

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but pr...

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our ac...

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of...

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason....

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts....

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of havin...

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms....

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the...

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each oth...

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the ...

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the form...

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his frie...