Quotes by Blaise Pascal

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

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

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.

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom through thought I comprehend the world.

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

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

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.

The strength of a mans virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

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

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

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

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

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

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

Mans greatness lies in his power of thought.

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

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.