Explore Quotes by Blaise Pascal

All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.

Things are always at their best in their beginning.

If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.

Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.

Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Between us, and Hell or Heaven, there is only life between the two, which is the most fragile thing in the world._x000D__x000D_Variant: Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.

Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.

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

If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We are then incapable of knowing either what He is or if He is. [So] you must wager. Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation that he is.

In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.

Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.

No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.

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.

You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.

Love has no age as it is always renewing itself.