There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous. – 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
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
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright. – Blaise Pascal
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched. – Blaise Pascal
We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it. – Blaise Pascal
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. – Blaise Pascal
If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy. – Blaise Pascal
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. – 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
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. – Blaise Pascal
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. – Blaise Pascal
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. – 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 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. – Blaise Pascal
We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it. – Blaise Pascal
Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm. – Blaise Pascal
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. – Blaise Pascal
Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects. – Blaise Pascal
We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike. – Blaise Pascal
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. – 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 finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice. – Blaise Pascal
