Blaise Pascal Quotes
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The best defense against logic is ignorance.
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Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.
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Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.
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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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Le moi est ha|«s sable. The self is hateful.
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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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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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If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
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Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.
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How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.
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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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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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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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Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.
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No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.
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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
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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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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.
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Men blaspheme what they do not know.
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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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All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.