Blaise Pascal Quotes

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

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

Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.

Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.

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

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

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

Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.