Blaise Pascal Quotes
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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
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How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.
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Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
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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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Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.
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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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There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.
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...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.
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So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities. Therefore those who have known God, without knowing their wretchedness, have not glorified Him, but have glorified themselves.
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Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.
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(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.
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Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.
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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.
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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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Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.
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Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?
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Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.
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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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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.
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If a man loves a woman for her beauty, does he love her? No; for the smallpox, which destroys her beauty without killing her, causes his love to cease. And if any one loves me for my judgment or my memory, does he really love me? No; for I can lose these qualities without ceasing to be.
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A jester, a bad character.
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Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.
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Look for the truth, it wants to be found.