Quotes from Pascal

Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty justice and happiness which is everything in this world.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself.

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force.

If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.

If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little shorter the whole face of the world would have been changed.

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it it opinion that uses the force.

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.

Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.

Le silence éternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie.

No habiendo podido los hombres remediar la muerte la miseria y la ignorancia, han imaginado, para ser felices, no pensar en absoluto en ellas.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

it is so inevitable that men will be fools that it is only by another shift of folly that one might not be

Let us imagine a number of men in chains, and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows, and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of men.