959 Quotes by Blaise Pascal

Quelque e tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only capable of one great passion.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them...the saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with the lips, and soon, in order that proud man, who would not submit himself to God, may be now subject to the creature.

Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.