Blaise Pascal Quotes, Thoughts and images

Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.

The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.

Once your soul has been enlarged by truth, it can never return to its original size.

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.

Happiness is neither within us nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.

Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.

It is the heart that perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God is perceived by the heart, not by reason.

If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Imagination decides everything.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.