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Famous Blaise Pascal Quotes
“Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.”
“All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.”
“Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.”
“The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.”
“What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy”
“The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.”
“It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.”
“Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.”
“Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.”
“When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.”
“Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.”
“Custom determines what is agreeable.”
“Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.”
“Everything that is incomprehensible does not, however, cease to exist.”
“Continuous eloquence wearies.”
“Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.”
“If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.”