Blaise Pascal Quotes

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

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

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

Imagination decides everything.

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

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

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

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

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

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

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

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

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

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

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