Blaise Pascal Quotes

Reason is very weak unless it comes to understand that there are many things that surpass it.

The last thing one knows is where to start.

It is easier to bear death without thinking about it than to bear the thought of death.

The king is surrounded by people who think only of entertaining him and preventing him from thinking of himself. Because, no matter how much of a king he is, he is unhappy if he thinks about it.

Man is naturally credulous, incredulous; timid, reckless.

The spirit naturally believes and the will naturally loves; so that, lacking true objects, it is necessary to cling to the false.

Description of man: dependency, desire for independence, necessity.

Who feels unhappy for not being a king, but a dethroned king?

Can there be anything more ridiculous than the claim that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water and his prince has a quarrel with mine, even though I have no quarrel with him?

Know that man infinitely surpasses man.

For those who only desire to see, there is enough light; but for those with an opposite disposition, there is always enough darkness.

It's not good to be too free. It's not good to have everything one wants.