Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Men blaspheme what they do not know.
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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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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.
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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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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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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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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 world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.
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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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You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.
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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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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.
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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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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.