Quotes by Blaise Pascal

Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of...

#Force, #Opinions

Two extremes: to exclude reason, to admit reason only.

#Courage

Sleep, you say, is the image of death; for my part I say that it...

#Death

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without...

#Achievement

Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only...

#Christianity

Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his...

#Christianity

If ignorance were bliss, he'd be a blister

#Ignorance

The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of...

#Ethics, #Ignorance, #Physics

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in...

#Judgement

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is...

#Evil, #God, #Living

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons.

#Grief

I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to...

#God