Blaise Pascal Quotes
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We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
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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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There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.
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Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
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Little things console us because little things afflict us.
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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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What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.
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There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.
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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.
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We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy.
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Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind or smoke, and saying it moreover in tones of pride and satisfaction? Is this then something to be said gaily? Is it not on the contrary something to be said sadly, as being the saddest thing in the world?
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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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That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides that which we love.
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Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.
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What amazes me most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.
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All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
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Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints.
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True eloquence scorns eloquence.
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The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best. If we can have both, still better; but if we must choose, we ought to choose the former.
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Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is.
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Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.