Blaise Pascal Quotes

It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

...our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows.

One thing you can rely on is that there will always be uncertainty.

One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.

This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.

It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties.

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.

I don't know the future.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

I lived with uncertainty.

We cannot infer that because sciences of things divine and human are full of controversies and quarrels, therefore their whole subject-matter is uncertain ; for there have been many persons so enamoured of contradiction, as to turn into ridicule geometrical axioms.

My unconditional sure thing is that I don't have one.

Certainty in politics is never a given.

I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.

But is all this true?" said Brutha. Didactylos shrugged. "Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork." "You mean you don't KNOW it's true?" said Brutha. "I THINK it might be," said Didactylos. "I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.

Nothing is ever certain.

No one has the answer: we are answer and question.