Top 500 Blaise Pascal Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Blaise Pascal

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2. “There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.”

— Blaise Pascal

3. “Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”

— Blaise Pascal

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4. “Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.”

— Blaise Pascal

5. “In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.”

— Blaise Pascal

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6. “Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

8. “I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.”

— Blaise Pascal

9. “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

— Blaise Pascal

10. “The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”

— Blaise Pascal

11. “In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.”

— Blaise Pascal

12. “If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.”

— Blaise Pascal

13. “If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.”

— Blaise Pascal

14. “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

15. “People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.”

— Blaise Pascal

16. “There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.”

— Blaise Pascal

17. “Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.”

— Blaise Pascal

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18. “The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which feels God, and not Reason. This, then, is perfect faith: God felt in the heart.”

— Blaise Pascal

19. “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

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

— Blaise Pascal

21. “Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.”

— Blaise Pascal

22. “Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too.”

— Blaise Pascal

23. “Faith is a gift of God.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

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25. “If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.”

— Blaise Pascal

26. “If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.”

— Blaise Pascal

27. “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

28. “Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.”

— Blaise Pascal

29. “Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.”

— Blaise Pascal

30. “The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.”

— Blaise Pascal

31. “Imagination decides everything.”

— Blaise Pascal

32. “It is much better to know something about everything than to know everything about one thing.”

— Blaise Pascal

33. “I know whom I have believed.”

— Blaise Pascal

34. “Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.”

— Blaise Pascal

35. “The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

37. “Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

39. “The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.”

— Blaise Pascal

40. “To understand is to forgive.”

— Blaise Pascal

41. “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.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

44. “Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.”

— Blaise Pascal

45. “Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.”

— Blaise Pascal

46. “The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.”

— Blaise Pascal

47. “Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!”

— Blaise Pascal

48. “It’s not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It’s those who write the songs.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

50. “You always admire what you really don’t understand.”

— Blaise Pascal