959 Quotes by Blaise Pascal

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.

The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which feels God, and not Reason. This, then, is perfect faith: God felt in the heart.

We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.

When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours. ...such community of intellect that we have with him necessarily inclines the heart to love.

What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe they are sinners, the sinners who believe they are righteous.