Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.
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Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.
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Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.
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We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.
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We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.
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By thought I embrace the universe.
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I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in believing it true.
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Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, you've gained God, heaven, and everything else. If it's false, you've lost nothing, but you've had a good life marked by peace and the illusion that ultimately, everything makes sense. If you bet that Christianity is not true, and it's false, you've lost nothing. But if you bet that it's false, and it turns out to be true, you've lost everything and you get to spend eternity in hell.
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Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.
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Le moi est ha|«s sable. The self is hateful.
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Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.
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The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.
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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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Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.
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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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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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Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
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If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy.
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There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.
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No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.
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Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
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Let each of us examine his thoughts.
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Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.