959 Quotes by Blaise Pascal

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

What amazes me the most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.

There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man without God, or the strength of man with God.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live not a moment exempt from its influence.

Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.

Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.

To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!