Blaise Pascal Quotes

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

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.

Faith Wise Truth You

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

Words Accomplish Kind Cost Much

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

Faith Light Believe Shadows

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Alone Fight Victory Us

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

Alone Men Sit Quiet Room

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

Great Intelligence Small Great Minds

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

Justice Without Force Powerless

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Heart Nothing Reason Valentine's Day

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

End Sail Uncertainty Within

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Future Look Past Action

Top 10
Blaise Pascal
Quotes

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

Men Evil Never Conviction

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

Love Truth Truth Is Know

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Man Power Thought Greatness His

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Little Things Things Us Little

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

People Others More Than

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Heart Truth Know Only

We never love a person, but only qualities.

Love Person Never Only

Vanity is but the surface.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Nature Ocean Movement Importance

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Love Understand Reason Cannot

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Men Think Only Two

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.

Change Moving On Time More

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.

Science Time Knowledge Me

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

God Faith Gift Human

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.

God Faith Heart Reason

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

Great Soul Feeling Lost

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