Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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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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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If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.
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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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Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.
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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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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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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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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.
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Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
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The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of justice.
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Imagination decides everything.
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It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.
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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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All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.
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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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He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
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When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who are rushing on, by acting as a fixed point.
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What amazes me most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.