Top 128 Quotes by Blaise Pascal

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

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.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

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

The only shame is to have none.

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.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

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