Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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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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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Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
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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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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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Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.
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Not to be mad is another form of madness.
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The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.
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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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It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.
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We like to be deceived.
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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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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.
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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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The war existing between the senses and reason.
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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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Dans une grande a" me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat.
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All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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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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You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.
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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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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.
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We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search.
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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.