Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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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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Vanity is but the surface.
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En un mot, l'homme conna|"t qu'il est mise rable: il est donc mise rable, puisqu'il l'est; mais il est bien grand, puisqu'il le conna|"t. In one word, man knows that he is miserable and therefore he is miserable because he knows it; but he is also worthy, because he knows his condition.
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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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Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.
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Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.
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The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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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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There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.
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No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth.
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All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what they are: it being difficult for those who regard themselves at heart as equal with all men... For this it is necessary for one to forget himself, and to believe that he has some real excellence above them, in which consists this illusion that I am endeavoring to discover to you.
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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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Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.
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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
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Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.
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Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.
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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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Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.
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Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.
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It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.
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All men naturally hate one another. I hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.