959 Quotes by Blaise Pascal

Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.

Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave

Let us now speak according to natural lights. If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible. . . . We are then incapable of knowing of either what He is or if He is. . . .

Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance.

It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles.

Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)