Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man.
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Man is neither angel nor beast.
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Console-toi, tu ne me chercherais pas si tu ne m'avais trouve. Comfort yourself. You would not seek me if you had not found me.
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Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
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All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
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Law, without force, is impotent.
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Five of the above rules are of absolute necessity, and cannot be dispensed with without essential defect and often without error.
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In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
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Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.
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Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.
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Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.
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You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.
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Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.
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The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.
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The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
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There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
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Do not mistake yourself by believing that your being has something in it more exalted than that of others.
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What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy.
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Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with.
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Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ, by commanding his followers to lay down their own lives.
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Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.
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The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.
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Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
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We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that they are impalpable: we do not feel them, though we suffer from their effects.