Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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 blaspheme what they do not know.
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He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
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You gave me health that I might serve you; and so often I failed to use my good health in your service. Now you send me sickness in order to correct me Grant that, having ignored the things of spirit when my body was vigorous, I may now enjoy spiritual sweetness while my body groans with pain.
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Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.
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To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.
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The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.
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True eloquence scorns eloquence.
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The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.
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If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.
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The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.
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Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything...
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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
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Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.
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That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides that which we love.
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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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We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers are finite, it is therefore true that there is a numerical infinity. But we know not of what kind; it is untrue that it is even, untrue that it is odd; for the addition of a unit does not change its nature; yet it is a number, and every number is odd or even (this certainly holds of every finite number). Thus we may quite well know that there is a God without knowing what He is.
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The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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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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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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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
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Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.