Blaise Pascal Quotes
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The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.
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If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
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Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.
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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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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
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Let each of us examine his thoughts.
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Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.
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I would inquire of reasonable persons whether this principle: Matter is naturally wholly incapable of thought, and this other: I think, therefore I am, are in fact the same in the mind of Descartes, and in that of St. Augustine, who said the same thing twelve hundred years before.
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How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.
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When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.
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Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
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Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
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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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Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.
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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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Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.
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It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.
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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.
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We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.
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If you believe in God you are at no disadvantage in this life, and at considerable advantage in the next. If you do not believe, but find in the next that there was a next, you are most unfortunate!
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The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.
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Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.
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Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself.
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If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.