Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.
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To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.
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The stream is always purer at its source.
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Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.
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The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.
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The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.
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Eloquence is the painting of thought.
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Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
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If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
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We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.
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Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.
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How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.
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The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.
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Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.
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When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
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One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.
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Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.
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The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about the misery of man, and they tempt you to despair.
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Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.
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Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
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Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering.
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The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to attribute will to it, as to the animals.