959 Quotes by Blaise Pascal

When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think otherwise. All this is evil, yet it is innate.

The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion.

Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.

Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.

There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

Sleep, you say, is the image of death; for my part I say that it is rather the image of life.

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.