959 Quotes by Blaise Pascal

The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.

Il n'y a que deux sortes d'hommes: les uns justes, qui se croient pe cheurs; les autres pe cheurs, qui se croient justes. There are only two types of people: the virtuous who believe themselves to be sinners and the sinners who believe themselves to be virtuous.

Great and small suffer the same mishaps.

Man governs himself more by impulse than reason

If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of justice.