Blaise Pascal Quotes and its meanings

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them.

Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

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.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

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.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

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.

Faith is different from proof the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

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.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Imagination decides everything.

Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

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?

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

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!

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

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.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

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

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.

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

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.