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All Quotes by author - Blaise Pascal

" All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room. "

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

" All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling. "

" 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. "

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

" A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us. "

" 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. "

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

" Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? "

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

" Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones. "

" Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm. "

" Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. "

" Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom? "

" Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. "

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

" Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. "

" Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. "

" Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. "

" Evil is easy, and has infinite forms. "

" Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them. "

" Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other. "

" Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them. "

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

" Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. "

" Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. "

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

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

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

" I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute. "

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