We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. – Blaise Pascal
Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth give him too much, the same. – Blaise Pascal
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher. – Blaise Pascal
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal
Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree. – Blaise Pascal
Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known. – Blaise Pascal
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
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. – Blaise Pascal
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. – Blaise Pascal
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. – Blaise Pascal
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. – Blaise Pascal
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. – Blaise Pascal
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom? – Blaise Pascal
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. – Blaise Pascal
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. – Blaise Pascal
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. – Blaise Pascal
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness. – Blaise Pascal
Men blaspheme what they do not know. – Blaise Pascal
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. – Blaise Pascal
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous. – Blaise Pascal
