959 Quotes by Blaise Pascal

Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

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

I know whom I have believed.

L'homme n'est qu'un sujet plein d'erreur, naturelle et ineffa c° able sans la gra" ce. Man is nothing but a subject full of natural error that cannot be eradicated except through grace.

Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the nothing; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the infinite. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.