Blaise Pascal Quotes

The only shame is to have none.
Blaise Pascal

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
Blaise Pascal

Strength, Special, Virtue

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.
Blaise Pascal

Weather, Matter, Days

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
Blaise Pascal

Reason, Show, Beyond

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
Blaise Pascal

Trust, God, Truth

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal

Long, Present, Simply

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal

Time, Made, Longer

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
Blaise Pascal

Love, Understand, Cannot

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
Blaise Pascal

Thoughts, Painting, Eloquence

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
Blaise Pascal

Beauty, Happiness, Justice

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.
Blaise Pascal

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
Blaise Pascal

Power, Powerful, Justice

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
Blaise Pascal

Both, Ourselves, Falsehood

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
Blaise Pascal

Happiness, God, Both

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
Blaise Pascal

Life, Hell, Between

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
Blaise Pascal

Faith, God, Heart

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
Blaise Pascal

Men, Death, Happy

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise Pascal

Him, Friends, Others

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise Pascal

Men, Friends, Others

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
Blaise Pascal

Great, Men, Small

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
Blaise Pascal

Alone, Struggle, Victory

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
Blaise Pascal

Faith, God, Human

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, Him

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
Blaise Pascal

Art, Thoughts, Keep

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Blaise Pascal

Nature, Infinite, Nowhere

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: June 19, 1623

Died: August 19, 1662

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