quotes by Blaise Pascal

"Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point.
(Translation: The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.)"
— Blaise Pascal (Pascal's Pensees)

"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."
— Blaise Pascal (Pensees)

"all of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone"
— Blaise Pascal

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

"We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves."
— Blaise Pascal

"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."
— Blaise Pascal

"It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth."
— Blaise Pascal

"“Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.” "
— Blaise Pascal

"By space the universe encompasses me and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world."
— Blaise Pascal

"The last act is bloody, however fine the rest of the play"
— Blaise Pascal (Pensees)

"I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one."
— Blaise Pascal

"Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better."
— Blaise Pascal

"All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves. "
— Blaise Pascal

"Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.
(Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)"
— Blaise Pascal (Pascal's Pensees)

"Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.

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— Blaise Pascal

"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't. "
— Blaise Pascal

"Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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— Blaise Pascal (Thoughts On Religion And Other Subjects)

"When one does not love too much, one does not love enough."
— Blaise Pascal

"The heart has reasons which the reason cannot understand."
— Blaise Pascal

"When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, or what will become of him when he dies, incapable of knowing anything, I am moved to terror, like a man transported in his sleep to some terrifying desert island, who wakes up quite lost, with no means of escape. Then I marvel that so wretched a state does not drive people to despair."
— Blaise Pascal