Blaise Pascal

There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man.

—Blaise Pascal

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

—Blaise Pascal

I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

—Blaise Pascal

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

—Blaise Pascal

We never love a person, but only qualities.

—Blaise Pascal

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

—Blaise Pascal

Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

—Blaise Pascal

Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.

—Blaise Pascal

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

—Blaise Pascal

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

—Blaise Pascal

The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.

—Blaise Pascal

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

—Blaise Pascal

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

—Blaise Pascal

To understand is to forgive.

—Blaise Pascal

There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God the Creator, made know through Jesus Christ.

—Blaise Pascal

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?

—Blaise Pascal

In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.

—Blaise Pascal

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.

—Blaise Pascal

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

—Blaise Pascal

Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.

—Blaise Pascal

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.

—Blaise Pascal

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

—Blaise Pascal

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

—Blaise Pascal

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

—Blaise Pascal

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

—Blaise Pascal

Little things comfort us because little things distress us.

—Blaise Pascal

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

—Blaise Pascal

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

—Blaise Pascal

Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

—Blaise Pascal

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

—Blaise Pascal