Blaise Pascal Quotes
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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.
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The greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is nature, we call in man wretchedness--by which we recognize that, his nature being now like that of animals, he has fallen from a better nature which once was his.
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Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.
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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 God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the lost effort is negligible in comparison to what is at risk in not seeking God in the first place.
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No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.
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Le silence est la plus grande perse cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was ever silent.
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Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.
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Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.
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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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Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.
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All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.
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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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There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us. Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, room, dress, and so on. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste.
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Everything that is incomprehensible does not, however, cease to exist.
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No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.
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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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Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.
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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
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We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.
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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
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When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.
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Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.
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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.