959 Quotes by Blaise Pascal

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing

Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.

The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.

Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.

L'on a beau se cacher a' soi-me" me, l'on aime toujours. We vainly conceal from ourselves the fact that we are always in love.

Knowledge has two extremes. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that reached by great minds, who, having run through all that men can know, find they know nothing, and come back again to that same natural ignorance from which they set out; this is a learned ignorance which is conscious of itself.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.