Blaise PascalWhen a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is in… ▶371LoveReadingSadness
Blaise PascalThat we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it. ✨ Blaise Pascal (2015). Pensees: Thoughts on Religion, p.268, Letcetera P… ▶361LoveThought
Blaise PascalWhen we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.372Love
Blaise PascalJust as I do not know where I came from, so I do not know where I am going. All I know is that when I leave this world I shall fall forever into oblivion, or into the hands of an … ▶372HopePoliticsThought
Blaise PascalNot only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not kno… ▶363DeathLife
Blaise PascalOne must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. ✨ Blaise Pascal (2013). Pensées, p.15, Cou… ▶363LifeTruth
Blaise PascalMankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason. ✨ Blaise Pascal, James M. Houston (2006). The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical … ▶341HopeHumanityThought
Blaise PascalWhat a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depositor… ▶374ReadingTruth
Blaise PascalAll men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.341Sadness
Blaise PascalI rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.341Philosophy
Blaise PascalNothing is surer than that the people will be weak. ✨ Blaise Pascal (1999). Pensées and Other Writings, p.14, Oxford University Press, USA363Humanity
Blaise PascalWhen we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as, for instance, that the sun will rise to morrow; but nature often d… ▶352Death
Blaise PascalAll sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.375Sadness
Blaise PascalOur soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else. ✨ Blaise Pascal (2… ▶353ThoughtTime
Blaise PascalMan is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. ✨ Blaise Pascal (2016). Pensées, p.135, Open Road Media364Thought
Blaise PascalJustice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. ✨ Blaise Pascal (1829). Thoughts on Religion and … ▶331PoliticsThought
Blaise PascalLove has reasons which reason cannot understand.353Love
Blaise PascalAll of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling. ✨ Blaise Pascal (1950). Pensées342Time
Blaise Pascal...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time i… ▶331TimeTruth
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… ▶375Humanity
Blaise PascalThe secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from age to age; and although she is always the same in … ▶353PhilosophyThoughtTime
Blaise PascalNo 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. ✨ Blaise Pascal, Thom… ▶364HopeLoveThought
Blaise PascalIf we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we… ▶331Thought
Blaise PascalMan is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. This man is a good mathematician, someone will say. But I have no concern for mathematics; he would take me f… ▶332DeathLove
Blaise PascalThere are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first … ▶321Humanity
Blaise PascalOur natures lie in motion, without which we die.354Death
Blaise PascalThus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, … ▶376Humor
Blaise PascalI bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.343Death
Blaise PascalThere are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.376Death
Blaise PascalOnce your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.365Truth
