Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Quand on voit le style naturel, on est tout e tonne et ravi, car on s'attendait de voir un auteur, et on trouve un homme. When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.
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I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans.
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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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Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.
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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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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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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 more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.
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True eloquence scorns eloquence.
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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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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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We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.
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What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.
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Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.
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However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.
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Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything...
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How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about 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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A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses, trees, tiles leaves, grasses, ants, legs of ants and so on to infinity. All this is subsumed under the name of landscape.
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Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure, and second, that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.