Pascal Quotes

Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.

Imagination decides everything.

A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too long.

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.

L'homme n'est ni ange ni be" te, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la be" te. Man is neither angel nor beast.Unfortunately, he who wants to act the angel often acts the beast.

When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who are rushing on, by acting as a fixed point.

Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

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?

There were people who read and there were the others. Whether you were the a reader or a non-reader was soon apparent. There was no greater distinction between people.

An overblown conscience is an empty conscience.

Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

Continuous eloquence wearies.

Kind words produce their images on men's souls.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

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

A jester, a bad character.

I feel engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me.

We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.

Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.

But when we set out to understand somebody’s inside? Is that a trip that ever ends? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories?

If you want to mess with me, you'd rather be ready for the consequences.

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

The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.

Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go. [Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins qui marchant et qui portent ou l'on veut aller.]

Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.

The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment.

[R]eligious concepts are parasitic upon moral intuitions.

He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.

Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere

Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

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.

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

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

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.

If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.

Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.

I think a person can learn. Basically, I think anything is possible.

One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.

The only shame is to have none.