959 Quotes by Blaise Pascal

If you believe in God you are at no disadvantage in this life, and at considerable advantage in the next. If you do not believe, but find in the next that there was a next, you are most unfortunate!

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.

Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does of us in our absence. Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.

All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have strange defects to be contemptible. But it has such, so that nothing is more ridiculous. How great it is in its nature! How vile it is in its defects! But what is this thought? How foolish it is!

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?