Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.
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To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
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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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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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May God never abandon me.
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If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.
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There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.
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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 we dreamed the same thing every night, it would affect us much as the objects we see every day. And if a common workman were sure to dream every night for twelve hours that he was a king, I believe he would be almost as happy as a king who should dream every night for twelve hours on end that he was a common workman.
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The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel.
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It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.
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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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How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and his faith was in vain, he has lost nothing...If, however, there is a God and a heaven and a hell. then he has gained heaven and his skeptical friends have lost everything.
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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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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If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.
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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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Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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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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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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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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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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One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.