Blaise Pascal Quotes

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

Valentine's Day, Heart, Nothing

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, Truth, Wise

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, Heart, Through

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

Yourself, Wish, Speak

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

Intelligence, Great, Small

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

God, Humble, Jesus

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

Alone, Men, Able

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

Faith, Enough, Light

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

Religion, Human, Loved

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

Justice, Force, Powerless

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

Love, Different, Before

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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Men, Evil, Religious

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.
Blaise Pascal

Sports, Him, Enough

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

Nothing, Lose, Exists

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

Patriotism, Him, Lives

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, Two, Kinds

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
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Power, Thought, Greatness

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

Feeling, Surrender, Ends

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
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Evil, Human, Single

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

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
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Time, True, Philosophy

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

Change, Time, Same

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, Tell, Above

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Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Blaise Pascal

Inspirational, Deeds, Noble

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

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: June 19, 1623

Died: August 19, 1662

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