Blaise Pascal Quotes
Man is but a reed, the weakest thing in nature; but a thinking reed.
We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
Things are always at their best in their beginning.
Habit is a second nature and it destroys the first.
The only shame is to have none.
Thought constitutes the greatness of man.
Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
Tyranny consists in the desire of universal power beyond its scope.
Two things instruct man about his whole nature; instinct and experience.
It is not good to have too much liberty. It is not good to have all one wants.
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions.
The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life.
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.
We are not miserable without feeling it. A ruined house is not miserable. Man only is miserable.
We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.
Why do we follow the majority? It is because they have more reason? No, because they have more power.
One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will be regarded as just, without being examined, since they are established.
