959 Quotes by Blaise Pascal

Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.

Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.

Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.

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.

We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.