Blaise Pascal Quotes
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The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.
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Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.
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All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.
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Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live not a moment exempt from its influence.
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Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.
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There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.
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Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.
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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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All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art of Conversation pauses with so much care to make it understood that we must not judge of the capacity of a man by the excellence of a happy remark that we heard him make. Let us penetrate, says he, the mind from which it proceeds. It will oftenest be seen that he will be made to disavow it on the spot, and will be drawn very far from this better thought in which he does not believe, to plunge himself into another, quite base and ridiculous.
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All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
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We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.
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Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
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Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.
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No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.
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Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
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Everything that is incomprehensible does not, however, cease to exist.
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Il est non seulement impossible, mais inutile de conna|"tre Dieu sans Je sus-Christ. It is not only impossible, but also useless to recognize God without Jesus.
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One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.
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Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
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We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers are finite, it is therefore true that there is a numerical infinity. But we know not of what kind; it is untrue that it is even, untrue that it is odd; for the addition of a unit does not change its nature; yet it is a number, and every number is odd or even (this certainly holds of every finite number). Thus we may quite well know that there is a God without knowing what He is.
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True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality.
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There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
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How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.
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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.