959 Quotes by Blaise Pascal

The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.

To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.

Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.

Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering.

Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking of it at all, that we reduce an eternity to nothingness, and expand a mere nothing to an eternity; and this habit is so inveterately rooted in us that all the force of reason cannot induce us to lay it aside.

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

Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.