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

— Blaise Pascal

Human beings must be known to be loved, but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

— Blaise Pascal

I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the opposite virtue, as in Epaminondas, who possessed extreme courage and extreme kindness. We show greatness not by being at one extreme, but by touching both at once and occupying all the space in between.

— Blaise Pascal

If a soldier or laborer complains of the hardship of his lot set him to do nothing.

— Blaise Pascal

If man studied himself, he would see how incapable he is of going further.

— Blaise Pascal

If we all told what we know of one another there would not be four friends in the world

— Blaise Pascal

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...?

— Blaise Pascal

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

— Blaise Pascal

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

— Blaise Pascal

If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous. . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.

— Blaise Pascal