Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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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All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
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Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.
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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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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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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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If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.
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Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.
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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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Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.
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There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.
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The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.
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All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.
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The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
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We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six persons immediately around us is enough to amuse and satisfy us.
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We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.
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Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!
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It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.
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If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.
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It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.
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Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.
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Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.