Blaise Pascal Quotes
-
To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
-
The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.
-
Le moi est ha|«s sable. The self is hateful.
-
Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.
-
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
-
Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
-
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.
-
Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.
-
When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true.
-
Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.
-
It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in the principles of morals. Yet philosophers have arranged their moral system entirely independent of this. What an extraordinary blindness!
-
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.
-
All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
-
Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.
-
Vanity is but the surface.
-
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
-
Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.
-
When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.
-
The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.
-
Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.
-
Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!
-
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
-
And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?
-
Wisdom leads us back to childhood.