Quotes by Blaise Pascal

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

“One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.”

“There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.”

“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”

“If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?”

“Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.”

“The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.”

“The only shame is to have none.”

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

“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”

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

“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.”