Blaise Pascal Quotes
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The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
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I would inquire of reasonable persons whether this principle: Matter is naturally wholly incapable of thought, and this other: I think, therefore I am, are in fact the same in the mind of Descartes, and in that of St. Augustine, who said the same thing twelve hundred years before.
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Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.
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For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.
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Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.
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Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best. If we can have both, still better; but if we must choose, we ought to choose the former.
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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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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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Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.
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Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.
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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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True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which has no rules, makes light of the morality of the intellect.... To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
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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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All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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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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Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.
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Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.
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All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.
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Without the knowledge of our wretchedness, the knowledge of God creates pride. With it, the knowledge of God creates despair. The knowledge of Christ offers a third way, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.
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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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To understand is to forgive.
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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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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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By thought I embrace the universe.