Top 500 Blaise Pascal Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality.”

— Blaise Pascal

52. “If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn’t find God, the lost effort is negligible in comparison to what is at risk in not seeking God in the first place.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

54. “Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.”

— Blaise Pascal

55. “We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.”

— Blaise Pascal

56. “The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.”

— Blaise Pascal

57. “The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.”

— Blaise Pascal

58. “Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.”

— Blaise Pascal

59. “Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.”

— Blaise Pascal

60. “When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

62. “We know the truth, not only be the reason, but also be the heart.”

— Blaise Pascal

63. “Love has no age as it is always renewing itself.”

— Blaise Pascal

64. “You’re basically killing each other to see who’s got the better imaginary friend.”

— Blaise Pascal

65. “Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.”

— Blaise Pascal

66. “If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it’s possible, in everything.”

— Blaise Pascal

67. “Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.”

— Blaise Pascal

68. “Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.”

— Blaise Pascal

69. “By thought I embrace the universe.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

71. “Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.”

— Blaise Pascal

72. “Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.”

— Blaise Pascal

73. “We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.”

— Blaise Pascal

74. “The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.”

— Blaise Pascal

75. “Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.”

— Blaise Pascal

76. “All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.”

— Blaise Pascal

77. “Wisdom leads us back to childhood.”

— Blaise Pascal

78. “The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.”

— Blaise Pascal

79. “Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.”

— Blaise Pascal

80. “Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.”

— Blaise Pascal

81. “It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.”

— Blaise Pascal

82. “Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.”

— Blaise Pascal

83. “The only shame is to have none.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

85. “Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.”

— Blaise Pascal

86. “We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.”

— Blaise Pascal

87. “Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.”

— Blaise Pascal

88. “Happiness is neither within us only, or without us; it is the union of ourselves with God.”

— Blaise Pascal

89. “When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.”

— Blaise Pascal

90. “Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.”

— Blaise Pascal

91. “At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ.”

— Blaise Pascal

92. “All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

94. “Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.”

— Blaise Pascal

95. “We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.”

— Blaise Pascal

96. “We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to refute them.”

— Blaise Pascal

97. “Man is neither angel nor beast.”

— Blaise Pascal

98. “Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.”

— Blaise Pascal

99. “No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal