Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Look for the truth, it wants to be found.
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The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.
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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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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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When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.
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Men blaspheme what they do not know.
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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
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The best defense against logic is ignorance.
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Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.
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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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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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Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.
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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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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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Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.
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By thought I embrace the universe.
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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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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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I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
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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.
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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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Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
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Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.
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To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.