Top 500 Blaise Pascal Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.”

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252. “I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.”

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253. “How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.”

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254. “Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.”

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255. “Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?”

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256. “Things are always at their best in their beginning.”

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257. “I like The Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace.”

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258. “Two faces are alike; neither is funny by itself, but side by side their likeness makes us laugh.”

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259. “He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.”

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260. “Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.”

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261. “To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep within proper bounds. There are two equally dangerous extremes- to shut reason out, and not to let nothing in.”

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262. “Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.”

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263. “There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.”

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264. “One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.”

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265. “The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.”

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266. “Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only his image.”

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267. “The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.”

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268. “Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.”

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269. “Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.”

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270. “What amazes me the most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.”

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271. “Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.”

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272. “The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.”

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273. “The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.”

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274. “Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.”

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275. “Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering.”

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276. “If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that passes all understanding.”

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277. “When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.”

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278. “What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.”

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279. “Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.”

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280. “Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.”

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281. “It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.”

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282. “If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.”

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283. “To deny, to believe, and to doubt well are to a man as the race is to a horse.”

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284. “The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.”

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285. “The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.”

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286. “Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.”

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287. “If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.”

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288. “Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.”

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289. “Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere.”

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290. “May God never abandon me.”

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291. “It is not certain that everything is uncertain.”

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292. “How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!”

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293. “Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it.”

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294. “Which is the more believable of the two, Moses or China?”

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295. “We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone.”

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296. “All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.”

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297. “Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.”

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298. “No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth.”

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299. “The knowledge of God without that of man’s misery causes pride. The knowledge of man’s misery without that of God causes despair. The knowledge of Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in Him we find both God and our misery.”

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300. “Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.”

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