959 Quotes by Blaise Pascal

If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death.

Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.

It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time his greatness. It is likewise dangerous to let him see his greatness without his meanness. It is more dangerous yet to leave him ignorant of either; but very beneficial that he should be made sensible of both.

I should not be a Christian but for the miracles.

Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.

We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one for a certain time, we do worry. How long does this time have to be?