Blaise Pascal Quotes

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.

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

I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.