Blaise Pascal Quotes
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The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
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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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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
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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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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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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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Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.
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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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All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.
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Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
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One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.
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However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.
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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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Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
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Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
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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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To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.
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We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.
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Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give them spiritual insight, without which faith is only human and useless for salvation.
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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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Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.
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All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.
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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
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Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.