959 Quotes by Blaise Pascal

There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.

May God never abandon me.

If we would say that man is too insignificant to deserve communion with God, we must indeed be very great to judge of it.

Everything that is incomprehensible does not cease to exist.

All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.

To speak freely of mathematics, I find it the highest exercise of the spirit; but at the same time I know that it is so useless that I make little distinction between a man who is only a mathematician and a common artisan. Also, I call it the most beautiful profession in the world; but it is only a profession;