Opinion is the queen of the world. — Blaise Pascal

There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them. — Blaise Pascal

All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one’s self. — Blaise Pascal

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world. — Blaise Pascal

The world is satisfied with words. Few appreciate the things beneath. [Fr., Le monde se paye de paroles; peu approfondissement les choses.] — Blaise Pascal

All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room. — Blaise Pascal

The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world. — Blaise Pascal

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. — Blaise Pascal

Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant. — Blaise Pascal

The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force. — Blaise Pascal

The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart from science, and the imitations of it, there are no true demonstrations. — Blaise Pascal

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world. — Blaise Pascal

The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface. — Blaise Pascal

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

Unless we love the truth we cannot know it. — Blaise Pascal

The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love. — Blaise Pascal

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

Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough. — Blaise Pascal

L’on a beau se cacher a’ soi–me’ me, l’on aime toujours. We vainly conceal from ourselves the fact that we are always in love. — Blaise Pascal

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand. — Blaise Pascal

Love has no age as it is always renewing itself. — Blaise Pascal

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it. — Blaise Pascal

Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the Truth, he cannot know it. — Blaise Pascal

The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth. — Blaise Pascal

The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it. — Blaise Pascal

Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him. — Blaise Pascal

We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship. — Blaise Pascal

Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission… We live not a moment exempt from its influence. — Blaise Pascal

Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra. — Blaise Pascal

We never love a person, but only qualities. — Blaise Pascal

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting. — Blaise Pascal

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. — Blaise Pascal

How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement! — Blaise Pascal

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

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. — Blaise Pascal

Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it. — Blaise Pascal

There is a God–shaped vacuum in every heart. — Blaise Pascal

We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart. — Blaise Pascal

The heart has arguments with which The logic of mind is not aquainted. — Blaise Pascal

In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart. — 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

It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart. — Blaise Pascal

The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts. — Blaise Pascal

No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing. — Blaise Pascal

Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real. — Blaise Pascal

Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason. — Blaise Pascal

There are two equally dangerous extremes–to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in. — Blaise Pascal

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. — Blaise Pascal

Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference… — Blaise Pascal

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason. — Blaise Pascal

The war existing between the senses and reason. — Blaise Pascal

Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances. — Blaise Pascal

It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe. — Blaise Pascal

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it. — Blaise Pascal

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others. — Blaise Pascal

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others. — Blaise Pascal

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it. — Blaise Pascal

Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason. — Blaise Pascal

Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable. — Blaise Pascal

Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits. — Blaise Pascal

Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted. — Blaise Pascal

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that. — Blaise Pascal

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools. — Blaise Pascal

Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common. — Blaise Pascal

Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good. — Blaise Pascal

All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised? — Blaise Pascal

That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature. — Blaise Pascal

Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything… — Blaise Pascal

Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. — 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

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. — Blaise Pascal

Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image. — Blaise Pascal

For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible. — Blaise Pascal

Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. — Blaise Pascal

Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything to everyone. We must not judge nature by ourselves, but by its own standards. — Blaise Pascal

This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing that is not a matter of doubt and disquiet. — Blaise Pascal

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience. — Blaise Pascal

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us. — Blaise Pascal

Our natures lie in motion, without which we die. — Blaise Pascal

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death. — Blaise Pascal

They do not know that They seek only the chase and not the quarry. — Blaise Pascal

Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not. — Blaise Pascal

Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off. — Blaise Pascal

I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness. — Blaise Pascal

I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans. — Blaise Pascal

To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair. — Blaise Pascal

We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness. — Blaise Pascal

Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves. — Blaise Pascal

Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small. — Blaise Pascal

Who knows if this other half of life where we think we’re awake is not another sleep a little different from the first. — Blaise Pascal

Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years. — Blaise Pascal

If you believe in God you are at no disadvantage in this life, and at considerable advantage in the next. If you do not believe, but find in the next that there was a next, you are most unfortunate! — 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

Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better. — Blaise Pascal

When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad Christian than to say he is not a Christian. — Blaise Pascal

The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God. — Blaise Pascal

For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it? — Blaise Pascal

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

One must know Oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. — Blaise Pascal

Most of the evils of life arise from man’s being unable to sit still in a room. — Blaise Pascal

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

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. — Blaise Pascal

Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race. — Blaise Pascal

Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth. — Blaise Pascal

The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution. — Blaise Pascal

At the centre of every human being is a God–shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ. — Blaise Pascal

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room. — Blaise Pascal