Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Look for the truth, it wants to be found.
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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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How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.
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We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
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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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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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Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!
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For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.
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Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything...
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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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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.
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Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
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Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.
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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.
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The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.
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How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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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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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.
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That queen, of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not always deceive. She would be the infallible rule of truth if she were the infallible rule of falsehood; but being only most frequently in error, she gives no evidence of her real quality, for she marks with the same character both that which is true and that which is false.
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That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.
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E? loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like a tyrant or king.