959 Quotes by Blaise Pascal

Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them. So, without the hunger for spiritual things, we weary of them. Hunger after righteousness – the eighth beatitude.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God.

Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it.

Man is neither angel nor brute, and the unfortunate thing is that he who would act the angel acts the brute.

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth.

If ignorance were bliss, he’d be a blister.

Man governs himself more by impulse than reason.