959 Quotes by Blaise Pascal

We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.

When we would show any one that he is mistaken, our best course is to observe on what side he considers the subject,--for his view of if is generally right on this side,--and admit to him that he is right so far. He will be satisfied with this acknowledgment, that he was not wrong in his judgment, but only inadvertent in not looking at the whole case.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind...

I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in believing it true.

The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.

Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go. [Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins qui marchant et qui portent ou l'on veut aller.]

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. We feel it in a thousand things. I say that the heart naturally loves the Universal Being, and naturally loves itself; and it gives itself to one or the other, and hardens itself against one or the other, as it chooses...it is the heart that feels God, not the reason; this is faith.