Top 500 Blaise Pascal Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.”

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352. “The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.”

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353. “Man’s grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.”

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354. “If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God.”

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355. “It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles.”

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356. “The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.”

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357. “The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.”

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358. “I see the terrifying spaces of the universe that enclose me, and I find myself attached to a corner of this vast expanse, without knowing why I am more in this place than in another, nor why this little time that is given me to live is assigned me at this point more than another out of all the eternity that has preceded me and out of all that will follow me.”

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359. “No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.”

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360. “Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.”

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361. “One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.”

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362. “If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.”

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363. “Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.”

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364. “Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.”

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365. “Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.”

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366. “It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.”

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367. “Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?”

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368. “It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.”

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369. “Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.”

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370. “Who knows if this other half of life where we think we’re awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.”

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371. “There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them.”

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372. “Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.”

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373. “What sort of freak then is man! How novel, how monstrous, how chaotic, how paradoxical, how prodigious! Judge of all things, feeble earthworm, repository of truth, sink of doubt and error, glory and refuse of the universe!”

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374. “Thus passes away all man’s life. Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable. For we think either of the misfortunes we have or of those which threaten us.”

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375. “All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.”

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376. “Cleopatra’s nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.”

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377. “And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?”

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378. “Justice is subject to dispute; might is easily recognized and is not disputed. So we cannot give might to justice.”

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379. “Condition de l’homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man’s condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.”

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380. “We make an idol of truth itself, for truth apart from charity is not God, but his image and an idol that we must not love or worship.”

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381. “La vraie e loquence se moque de l’e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.”

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382. “The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves.”

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383. “The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to attribute will to it, as to the animals.”

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384. “Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.”

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385. “Man’s greatness comes from knowing he is wretched.”

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386. “Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.”

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387. “All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.”

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388. “We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.”

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389. “To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.”

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390. “Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.”

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391. “All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.”

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392. “A jester, a bad character.”

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393. “Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.”

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394. “What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial.”

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395. “That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness; that is most remarkable.”

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396. “Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.”

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397. “The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.”

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398. “It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.”

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399. “Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.”

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400. “Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare; it is the pleasure even of kings.”

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