Blaise Pascal Quotes
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The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.
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Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.
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It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in the principles of morals. Yet philosophers have arranged their moral system entirely independent of this. What an extraordinary blindness!
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The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd.
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Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.
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The war existing between the senses and reason.
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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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The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
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The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
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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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Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
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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 man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.
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Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.
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Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.
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Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
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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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All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
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Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.
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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.
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Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.