Quotes by Blaise Pascal

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

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

“You always admire what you really don't understand.””

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

“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.””

“We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.””

“Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.(Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)””

“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.””