Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
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The man who knows God but does not know his own misery, becomes proud. The man who knows his own misery but does not know God, ends in despair...the knowledge of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course because in him we find both God and our own misery. Jesus Christ is therefore a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.
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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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Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.
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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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Il n'y a que deux sortes d'hommes: les uns justes, qui se croient pe cheurs; les autres pe cheurs, qui se croient justes. There are only two types of people: the virtuous who believe themselves to be sinners and the sinners who believe themselves to be virtuous.
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Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure, and second, that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.
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The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.
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No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.
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If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
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Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything...
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Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.
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Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is.
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Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.
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He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.
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Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.
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There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.
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We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.