Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

— Blaise Pascal

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?

— Blaise Pascal

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

— Blaise Pascal

Continuity in everything is unpleasant.

— Blaise Pascal

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

— Blaise Pascal

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

— Blaise Pascal

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

— Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

— Blaise Pascal