Blaise Pascal Quotes
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There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.
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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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Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.
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All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.
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We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
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Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
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True eloquence scorns eloquence.
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One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
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The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.
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Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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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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To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.
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It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time his greatness. It is likewise dangerous to let him see his greatness without his meanness. It is more dangerous yet to leave him ignorant of either; but very beneficial that he should be made sensible of both.
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Quelque e tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only capable of one great passion.
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Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.
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Undoubtedly equality of goods is just; but, being unable to cause might to obey justice, men has made it just to obey might. Unable to strengthen justice, they have justified might--so that the just and the strong should unite, and there should be peace, which is the sovereign good.
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Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.
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Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.