Top 500 Blaise Pascal Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

103. “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

104. “Man is neither angel nor beast.”

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105. “For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.”

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

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

111. “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

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

— Blaise Pascal

113. “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

114. “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

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

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

117. “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

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

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

122. “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

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

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

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125. “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

126. “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

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

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

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

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

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

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132. “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

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

— Blaise Pascal

134. “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

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

— Blaise Pascal

136. “Tout le malheur des hommes vient d’une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.”

— Blaise Pascal

137. “When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

139. “The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his every-day conduct.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

141. “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

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

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

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144. “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

145. “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

146. “There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

149. “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

150. “We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.”

— Blaise Pascal