959 Quotes by Blaise Pascal

There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.

Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.

He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.

Generally we are occupied either with the miseries which now we feel, or with those which threaten; and even when we see ourselves sufficiently secure from the approach of either, still fretfulness, though unwarranted by either present or expected affliction, fails not to spring up from the deep recesses of the heart, where its roots naturally grow, and to fill the soul with its poison.

The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.

Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.

Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything to everyone. We must not judge nature by ourselves, but by its own standards.