Blaise Pascal Quotes
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All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.
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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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It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.
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Kind words produce their images on men's souls.
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All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
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The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.
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As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and that reason is that we know well what is the object of mathematics, and that it consists in proofs, and what is the object of medicine, and that it consists in healing. But we do not know in what grace consists, which is the object of poetry.
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Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the nothing; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the infinite. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.
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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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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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To understand is to forgive.
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It is dangerous to explain too clearly to man how like he is to the animals without pointing out his greatness. It is also dangerous to make too much of his greatness without his vileness. It is still more dangerous to leave him in ignorance of both, but it is most valuable to represent both to him. Man must not be allowed to believe that he is equal either to animals or to angels, nor to be unaware of either, but he must know both.
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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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Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.
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The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
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It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.
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Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.
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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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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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Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.
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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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Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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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.