Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them. – Blaise Pascal
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. – Blaise Pascal
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal
If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists. – Blaise Pascal
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness. – Blaise Pascal
Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world. – Blaise Pascal
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. – Blaise Pascal
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. – Blaise Pascal
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. – Blaise Pascal
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. – Blaise Pascal
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. – Blaise Pascal
Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion. – Blaise Pascal
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. – Blaise Pascal
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us. – Blaise Pascal
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. – Blaise Pascal
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room. – Blaise Pascal
In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious. – Blaise Pascal
The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it. – Blaise Pascal
