Blaise Pascal Quotes
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By thought I embrace the universe.
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Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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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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He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.
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Il n'y a que deux sortes d'hommes: les uns justes, qui se croient pe cheurs; les autres pe cheurs, qui se croient justes. There are only two types of people: the virtuous who believe themselves to be sinners and the sinners who believe themselves to be virtuous.
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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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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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Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.
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There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.
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Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
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Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.
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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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Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.
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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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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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Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.
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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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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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We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.
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There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.
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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 honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything...
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Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
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The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.