Pascal Quotes

42 quotes

French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623–1662)

“Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.”

"Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them."

on Writing

"Man is only a reed the weakest thing in nature but he is a thinking reed."

on Philosophy

"Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed."

on Philosophy

"People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive."

on Philosophy

"If we all told what we know of one another there would not be four friends in the world"

on Truth

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows not."

on Love

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

on Life

"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."

on Faith

"All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling."

on Emotion

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

on Wisdom

"Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death."

on Philosophy

"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth."

on Philosophy

"We sail within a vast sphere ever drifting in uncertainty driven from end to end."

on Life

"Faith declares what the senses do not see but not the contrary of what they see."

on Faith

"It is the heart which experiences God and not the reason."

on Faith

"The majority is the best way because it is visible and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able."

on Philosophy

"All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end."

on Happiness

"Eloquence.— We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true."

on Truth

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."

on Ethics

"Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism."

on Philosophy