Blaise Pascal Quotes
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That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.
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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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Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.
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What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher. Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer?
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The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
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By thought I embrace the universe.
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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.
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Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.
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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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The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.
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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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The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.
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The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]
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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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Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
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The property of power is to protect.
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That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth. [Fr., Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre.]
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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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The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.
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All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of Nature; and from the tiny cell where he lodges, to wit the Universe, weigh at their true worth earth, kingdoms, towns, himself. What is a man face to face with infinity?
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Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.
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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.