959 Quotes by Blaise Pascal

We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light it throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus 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. (Page 10)

He no longer loves the person whom he loved ten years ago. I quite believe it. She is no longer the same, nor is he. He was young, and she also; she is quite different. He would perhaps love her yet, if she were what she was then.

Le coeur a ses raisons que le raison ne connaît point.

Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare; it is the pleasure even of kings.

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.

Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.

Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.

Knowlege of God without knowledge of man's wretchedness leads to pride. Knowledge of man's wretchedness without knowledge of God leads to despair. Knowledge of Jesus Christ is the middle course, because by it we discover both God and our wretched state.

Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.