959 Quotes by Blaise Pascal

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force. [Fr., La force est la reine du monde, et non pas l'opinion; mais l'opinion est celle qui use de la force.]

Our natures lie in motion, without which we die.

At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ.

We make an idol of truth itself, for truth apart from charity is not God, but his image and an idol that we must not love or worship.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

We are troubled only by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves.

True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality.

To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction.

The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.