959 Quotes by Blaise Pascal

Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.

Sneezing absorbs all the functions of the soul just as much as the [sexual] act, but we do not draw from it the same conclusions against the greatness of man, because it is involuntary; although we bring it about, we do so involuntarily. It is not for the sake of the thing in itself but for another end, and is therefore not a sign of man's weakness, or his subjection to this act.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which has no rules, makes light of the morality of the intellect.... To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.