Top 500 Blaise Pascal Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “The gospel to me is simply irresistible.”

— Blaise Pascal

202. “Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men’s souls, and a beautiful image it is.”

— Blaise Pascal

203. “Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.”

— Blaise Pascal

204. “Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony.”

— Blaise Pascal

205. “It is man’s natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.”

— Blaise Pascal

206. “The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.”

— Blaise Pascal

207. “If ignorance were bliss, he’d be a blister.”

— Blaise Pascal

208. “If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?”

— Blaise Pascal

209. “Little things console us because little things afflict us.”

— Blaise Pascal

210. “We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is.”

— Blaise Pascal

211. “The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.”

— Blaise Pascal

212. “Opinion is the queen of the world.”

— Blaise Pascal

213. “Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?”

— Blaise Pascal

214. “Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.”

— Blaise Pascal

215. “I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in believing it true.”

— Blaise Pascal

216. “The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.”

— Blaise Pascal

217. “The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.”

— Blaise Pascal

218. “Custom determines what is agreeable.”

— Blaise Pascal

219. “Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.”

— Blaise Pascal

220. “When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.”

— Blaise Pascal

221. “Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.”

— Blaise Pascal

222. “It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.”

— Blaise Pascal

223. “All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.”

— Blaise Pascal

224. “Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it.”

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225. “Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.”

— Blaise Pascal

226. “I should not be a Christian but for the miracles.”

— Blaise Pascal

227. “We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.”

— Blaise Pascal

228. “What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it.”

— Blaise Pascal

229. “He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.”

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230. “All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.”

— Blaise Pascal

231. “All mankind’s unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.”

— Blaise Pascal

232. “Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.”

— Blaise Pascal

233. “A given man lives a life free from boredom by gambling a small sum every day. Give him every morning the money he might win that day, but on condition that he does not gamble, and you will make him unhappy.”

— Blaise Pascal

234. “Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.”

— Blaise Pascal

235. “I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give a fillip to set the world in motion; beyond this, he has no further need of God.”

— Blaise Pascal

236. “Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.”

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237. “Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you – will quiet your proudly critical intellect.”

— Blaise Pascal

238. “The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.”

— Blaise Pascal

239. “The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.”

— Blaise Pascal

240. “There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.”

— Blaise Pascal

241. “Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.”

— Blaise Pascal

242. “Le silence e ternel de ces espaces infinis m’effraie. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.”

— Blaise Pascal

243. “Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is.”

— Blaise Pascal

244. “The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.”

— Blaise Pascal

245. “Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied.”

— Blaise Pascal

246. “We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.”

— Blaise Pascal

247. “If you believe in God you are at no disadvantage in this life, and at considerable advantage in the next. If you do not believe, but find in the next that there was a next, you are most unfortunate!”

— Blaise Pascal

248. “Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death.”

— Blaise Pascal

249. “Any unity which doesn’t have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.”

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250. “If man is not made for God, why is he only happy in God? If man is made for God, why is he so opposed to God?”

— Blaise Pascal