Blaise Pascal Quotes
-
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.
-
The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.
-
Let us now speak according to natural lights. If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible. . . . We are then incapable of knowing of either what He is or if He is. . . .
-
There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
-
We like to be deceived.
-
Je ne crois que les histoires dont les te moins se feraient e gorger. I only believe in histories told by witnesses who would have had their throats slit.
-
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.
-
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
-
Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
-
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.
-
It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.
-
What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
-
If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.
-
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
-
Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere.
-
You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.
-
Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking of it at all, that we reduce an eternity to nothingness, and expand a mere nothing to an eternity; and this habit is so inveterately rooted in us that all the force of reason cannot induce us to lay it aside.
-
It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.
-
Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.
-
The war existing between the senses and reason.
-
Il y a deux sortes d'esprits, l'un ge ome trique, et l'autre que l'on peut appeler de finesse. Le premier a des vues lentes, dures et inflexibles; mais le dernier a une souplesse de pense e. There are two kinds of mind, one mathematical, the other what one might call the intuitive. The first takes a slow, firm, inflexible view, but the latter has flexibility of thought.
-
We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search.
-
Between us, and Hell or Heaven, there is only life between the two, which is the most fragile thing in the world. Variant: Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
-
The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.