959 Quotes by Blaise Pascal

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.

Continued eloquence is wearisome.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.

Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.

One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.

We like to be deceived.