Quotes from Blaise Pascal

Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live not a moment exempt from its influence.

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

Imagination decides everything.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

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

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal

We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.

The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it.

Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

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.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.