Blaise Pascal Uses Quotations

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.

According to the doctrine of chance, you ought to put yourself to the trouble of searching for the truth; for if you die without worshiping the True Cause, you are lost. "But," say you, "if He had wished me to worship Him, He would have left me signs of His will." He has done so; but you neglect them. Seek them, therefore; it is well worth it.

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.