Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Blaise Pascal Quotes
IntellectOriginalityPerceptionIndividuality The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
Self-DiscoveryPersuasionConvictionAutonomy People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
FriendshipTrustGossipBetrayal If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
EvilRestlessnessPatience All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
SoulImmortalitySignificanceHuman Condition 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.
Self-deceptionAuthenticityImaginationBeliefHeart Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
ImpactInterconnectednessSignificance The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
ContradictionTruthFalsity Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
HabitNaturePhilosophy Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
ModerationSelf-ControlDiscipline It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
StruggleRedemptionFaithHope It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.
WarInjusticeConflictAbsurdity 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?
FaithBeliefDoubtPerception In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Human ConditionBoredomFrivolityDistraction Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
ReasonWisdomObedienceConsequence Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.
FaithPerceptionTranscendence Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
PerspectiveIndividualityDifferenceAcceptance We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
DeathMortalityFinality The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
Self-DeceptionWillful IgnoranceDangerReality We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
MindsetPerspectiveGreatnessSimplicity Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
FaithSensesTranscendence 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.
Public SpeakingAudience InfluenceInspirationPerformance There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.
LoveTransformation When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
LifeFragilityMortality Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
ImaginationBeautyJusticeHappiness Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
BrevityTimeEffort The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
GossipFriendshipTrustHonesty I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
TruthDutyTrustFaithGuidance He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
FaultsSelf-awarenessSelf-deception Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
AuthenticityNaturalnessHumanity When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
GodExistenceMysteryParadox It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
DesireForceAction Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
EvilRestlessnessHuman Nature I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
FaithGodHeartPerception It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.