Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. – Blaise Pascal
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. – Blaise Pascal
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. – Blaise Pascal
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. – Blaise Pascal
The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. – Blaise Pascal
If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole? – 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
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. – Blaise Pascal
People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others. – Blaise Pascal
It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer. – Blaise Pascal
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. – Blaise Pascal
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. – Blaise Pascal
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t. – Blaise Pascal
The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter. – Blaise Pascal
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. – Blaise Pascal
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person. – Blaise Pascal
