959 Quotes by Blaise Pascal

Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference.

Our notion of symmetry is derived from the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breath only, not vertically nor in depth.

We never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know...All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

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.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.

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

The heart has reasons which the reason cannot understand.