959 Quotes by Blaise Pascal

[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.

How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.

Wisdom leads us back to childhood.

It is much better to know something about everything than to know everything about one thing.

The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.

Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed.

It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.