Blaise Pascal
It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
Blaise PascalWeariness.Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness.
Blaise PascalThat we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
Blaise PascalIf you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise PascalI have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.
Blaise PascalIf we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?
Blaise PascalTherefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give them spiritual insight, without which faith is only human a
Blaise PascalI have made this letter long because i have not the time to make it shorter.
Blaise PascalClarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
Blaise PascalMan is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.
Blaise PascalTruth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it.
Blaise PascalThe Knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
Blaise PascalWe know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
Blaise PascalThe eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
Blaise PascalThe heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Blaise PascalContradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Blaise PascalSince we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
Blaise PascalThe consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
Blaise PascalHappiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
Blaise PascalAnimals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
Blaise PascalNothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
Blaise PascalEarnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
Blaise PascalKind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.
Blaise PascalPeople are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise PascalIf all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise Pascal
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