959 Quotes by Blaise Pascal

There is nothing we can now call our own, for what we call so is the effect of art; crimes are made by decrees of the senate, or by the votes of the people; and as here-to-fore we are burdened by vices, so now we are oppressed by laws.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.

And thus, by combining the uncertainty of chance with the force of mathematical proof and by the reconciliation of two apparent opposites, she derives her name from both of them and rightfully assumes the wonderful name of Mathematics of Chance!

There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature... and the thing which pleases us.

Man’s condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety. (Page 1)

In every action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all these things.