Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. Blaise Pascal Education
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous. Blaise Pascal Men
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. Blaise Pascal Faith
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. Blaise Pascal Imagination
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them. Blaise Pascal Faith
If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! Blaise Pascal Religion
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason. Blaise Pascal Faith
Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them. Blaise Pascal Faith
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. Blaise Pascal Truth
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him. Blaise Pascal Sports
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? Blaise Pascal War
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. Blaise Pascal Truth
Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. Blaise Pascal Truth
The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice. Blaise Pascal God
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason. Blaise Pascal God
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. Blaise Pascal Great