Blaise Pascal Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

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

“He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.”

“Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?”

“Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.”

“The only shame is to have none.”

“It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.”

“I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”

“The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.”

“There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.”

“If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.”