Blaise Pascal quotes

The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.

All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

The last thing one settles in writing a book is what one should put in first.

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

Justice without might is helpless; might without justice is tyrannical.