Quotes by Blaise Pascal

“Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.”

“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe they are sinners, the sinners who believe they are righteous.”

“Little things console us because little things afflict us”

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

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

“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.”

“The gospel to me is simply irresistible.”

“We must learn our limits. We are all something but none of us are everything.”

“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”

“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who dont.”

“Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.”

“The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason”

“Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will”

“Do you wish people to think well of you? Dont speak well of yourself”

“Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it”

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

“Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives”

“All human evil comes from a single cause, mans inability to sit still in a room”

“Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.”

“Either Christianity is true or its false. If you bet that its true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, youve gained God, heaven, and everything else. If its false, youve lost nothing, but youve had a good life marked by peace and the illusion that ultimately, everything makes sense. If you bet that Christianity is not true, and its false, youve lost nothing. But if you bet that its false, and it turns out to be true, youve lost everything and you get to spend eternity in hell.”