Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Catholic theologian. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. These Blaise Pascal quotes will motivate you.
Best Blaise Pascal Quotes
- “If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.” ~ Blaise Pascal
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“Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “Either Christianity is true or it’s false. If you bet that it’s true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, you’ve gained God, heaven, and everything else. If it’s false, you’ve lost nothing, but you’ve had a good life marked by peace and the illusion that ultimately, everything makes sense. If you bet that Christianity is not true, and it’s false, you’ve lost nothing. But if you bet that it’s false, and it turns out to be true, you’ve lost everything and you get to spend eternity in hell.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first is rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.” ~ Blaise Pascal
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“We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us is everything.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “Once your soul has been enlarged by truth, it can never return to its original size.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn’t than live as if he doesn’t exist to find out He does.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great since I do them in your name!” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “It’s not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It’s those who write the songs.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “Imagination decides everything.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light is thrown on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator made known through Jesus.” ~ Blaise Pascal
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“Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “Force rules the world-not opinion, but it is an opinion that makes use of force.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “Happiness is neither within us nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “Human beings must be known to be loved, but Divine beings must be loved to be known.” ~ Blaise Pascal
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“When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.” ~ Blaise Pascal Quotes
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“All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that religion is not contrary to reason, but worthy of reverence and respect. Next, make it attractive, make good men wish it were true, and then show that it is.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “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
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“To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men’s souls, and a beautiful image it is.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “In faith, there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.” ~ Blaise Pascal, Blaise Pascal quotes on happiness
- “The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king … unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized.” ~ Blaise Pascal
