959 Quotes by Blaise Pascal

Console-toi, tu ne me chercherais pas si tu ne m'avais trouve . Comfort yourself.You would not seek me if you had not found me.

Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all imaginable space; we only produce atoms in comparison with the reality of things. It is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere.

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man ...

Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

To deny, to believe, and to doubt well are to a man as the race is to a horse.

L'homme n'est ni ange ni be" te, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la be" te. Man is neither angel nor beast.Unfortunately, he who wants to act the angel often acts the beast.

In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a tempest upon an unknown island, the inhabitants of which were in trouble to find their king, who was lost; and having a strong resemblance both in form and face to this king, he was taken for him, and acknowledged in this capacity by all the people.