Blaise Pascal Quotes
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All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.
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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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He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.
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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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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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It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.
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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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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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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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Dans une grande a" me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat.
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We like to be deceived.
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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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The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.
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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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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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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 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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We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search.
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The war existing between the senses and reason.
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All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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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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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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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.