959 Quotes by Blaise Pascal

Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force

Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

If a man loves a woman for her beauty, does he love her? No; for the smallpox, which destroys her beauty without killing her, causes his love to cease. And if any one loves me for my judgment or my memory, does he really love me? No; for I can lose these qualities without ceasing to be.

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

True eloquence scorns eloquence.

The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.

If ignorance were bliss, he'd be a blister

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.