Blaise Pascal Quotes
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The war existing between the senses and reason.
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Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better.
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It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.
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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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Men blaspheme what they do not know.
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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.
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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.
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We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search.
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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.
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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
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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.
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Things are always at their best in their beginning.
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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. . . .
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All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.
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Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.
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Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
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The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.
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If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.
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We like to be deceived.
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No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.
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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.
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We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason.
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You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.
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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.