959 Quotes by Blaise Pascal

We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.

they do not know that they seek only the chase and not the quarry.

The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.

Le silence e ternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

It is dangerous to tell the people that the laws are unjust; for they obey them only because they think them just. Therefore it isnecessary to tell them at the same time that they must obey them because they are laws, just as they must obey superiors, not because they are just, but because they are superiors. In this way all sedition is prevented.

Opinion is the queen of the world.