Blaise Pascal Quotes

French - Philosopher June 19, 1623 - August 19, 1662

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. - Blaise Pascal

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. Blaise Pascal

Words, Accomplish, Kind, Cost, Much

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

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

Great, Intelligence, Small, Minds

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

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

Heart, Nothing, Reason, Valentine's Day

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

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

Alone, Men, Quiet, Room, Sit, Being

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. - Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. Blaise Pascal

Communication, Thoughts, Painting

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

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

Justice, Without, Force, Powerless

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, Lose, You, Belief

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, Know, Obscure

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, Two, Only, Righteous, Who

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

Light, Faith, Blind, Believe, Enough

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. - Blaise Pascal

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. Blaise Pascal

Man, Power, Greatness, Thought, Lies

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. Blaise Pascal

Evil, Men, Never, Conviction, Religious

You always admire what you really don't understand. - Blaise Pascal

You always admire what you really don't understand. Blaise Pascal

You, Understand, Admire, Always, Really

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. Blaise Pascal

Sail, End, Uncertainty, Driven, Within

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed. - Blaise Pascal

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed. Blaise Pascal

Inspirational, Deeds, Noble, Most

Little things console us because little things afflict us. Blaise Pascal

Little Things, Because, Things, Us

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

Only, Disguise, Contradiction, Falsehood

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, Moving On, Offended, More

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

Evil, Illusion, Fault, Faults, Still

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

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

Yourself, People, Think, Speak, Wish

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

Time, Only, Because, Made, Letter, Than

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

Man, Sports, Enough, Without, Him, Ball

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. Blaise Pascal

Knowledge, Time, Science, Ignorance, Me

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

Strength, Mind, Degree, Only, Atheism

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

Mind, People, Better, Others, Come, Than

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

Religion, Loved, Human, Divine, Known

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