Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Men blaspheme what they do not know.
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It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.
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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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The war existing between the senses and reason.
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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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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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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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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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We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not thinkof the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is generally painful to us.
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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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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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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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The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.
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All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.
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We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search.
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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.
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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.
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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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Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.
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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.
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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.