Top 500 Blaise Pascal Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

103. “We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.”

— Blaise Pascal

104. “The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.”

— Blaise Pascal

105. “God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind...”

— Blaise Pascal

106. “All of human unhappiness comes from one single thing: not knowing how to remain at rest in a room.”

— Blaise Pascal

107. “The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.”

— Blaise Pascal

108. “Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real.”

— Blaise Pascal

109. “I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.”

— Blaise Pascal

110. “Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.”

— Blaise Pascal

111. “Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.”

— Blaise Pascal

112. “The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.”

— Blaise Pascal

113. “Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.”

— Blaise Pascal

114. “We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.”

— Blaise Pascal

115. “It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.”

— Blaise Pascal

116. “Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.”

— Blaise Pascal

117. “Symmetry is what we see at a glance.”

— Blaise Pascal

118. “Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.”

— Blaise Pascal

119. “The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.”

— Blaise Pascal

120. “When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who are rushing on, by acting as a fixed point.”

— Blaise Pascal

121. “A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.”

— Blaise Pascal

122. “Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.”

— Blaise Pascal

123. “I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn’t than live as if he doesn’t exist to find out He does.”

— Blaise Pascal

124. “Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.”

— Blaise Pascal

125. “When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true.”

— Blaise Pascal

126. “Thought constitutes the greatness of man. Man is a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.”

— Blaise Pascal

127. “Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.”

— Blaise Pascal

128. “We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.”

— Blaise Pascal

129. “What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.”

— Blaise Pascal

130. “Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.”

— Blaise Pascal

131. “The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.”

— Blaise Pascal

132. “The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.”

— Blaise Pascal

133. “Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.”

— Blaise Pascal

134. “All mankind’s troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.”

— Blaise Pascal

135. “Man is neither angel nor brute, and the unfortunate thing is that he who would act the angel acts the brute.”

— Blaise Pascal

136. “Either God exists or He doesn’t. Either I believe in God or I don’t. Of the four possibilities, only one is to my disadvantage. To avoid that possibility, I believe in God.”

— Blaise Pascal

137. “Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.”

— Blaise Pascal

138. “Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.”

— Blaise Pascal

139. “Law, without force, is impotent.”

— Blaise Pascal

140. “The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with the lips, and soon, in order that proud man, who would not submit himself to God, may be now subject to the creature.”

— Blaise Pascal

141. “Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.”

— Blaise Pascal

142. “Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.”

— Blaise Pascal

143. “All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.”

— Blaise Pascal

144. “Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.”

— Blaise Pascal

145. “Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.”

— Blaise Pascal

146. “The best defense against logic is ignorance.”

— Blaise Pascal

147. “This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing that is not a matter of doubt and disquiet.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

149. “One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.”

— Blaise Pascal

150. “We show greatness, not by being at one extreme, but by touching both at once and occupying all the space in between.”

— Blaise Pascal