959 Quotes by Blaise Pascal

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.

The authority of reason is far more imperious than that of a master; for he who disobeys the one is unhappy, but he who disobeys the other is a fool.

There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.

Symmetry is what we see at a glance.

All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.