Top 15 Blaise Pascal Quotes

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

"I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."

(Letter 16, 1657)

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.

I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.

When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.