Blaise Pascal Quotes
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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.
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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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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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To speak freely of mathematics, I find it the highest exercise of the spirit; but at the same time I know that it is so useless that I make little distinction between a man who is only a mathematician and a common artisan. Also, I call it the most beautiful profession in the world; but it is only a profession.
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Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.
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There is a lot of difference between tempting and leading into error. God tempts but does not lead into error. To tempt is to provide opportunities for us to do certain things if we do not love God, but putting us under no necessity to do so. To lead into error is to compel a man necessarily to conclude and follow a falsehood.
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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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Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
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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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There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.
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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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We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the state in which we are not.
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Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
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All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.
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All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.
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All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.
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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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It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.
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Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.
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Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.
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Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should be told the truth, he shuns saying it to others; and all these moods, so inconsistent with justice and reason, have their roots in his heart.
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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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All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.