959 Quotes by Blaise Pascal

The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their want of authority and justice.

The Jesuits have tried to combine God and the world, and have only earned the contempt of God and the world.

Truth on this side of the Pyrenees, error on the other.

To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.

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

This is how the whole of our life slips by. We seek repose by battling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome we find rest is unbearable because of the boredom it generates. ... We can't imaging a condition that is pleasant without fun and noise.

I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter.

All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.