Blaise Pascal

"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't."

-Blaise Pascal

"Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them."

-Blaise Pascal

"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."

-Blaise Pascal

"Faith is different from proof the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God."

-Blaise Pascal

"Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see it is above, not against them."

-Blaise Pascal

"Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other."

-Blaise Pascal

"We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured."

-Blaise Pascal

"If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future."

-Blaise Pascal

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"In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious."

-Blaise Pascal

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"There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus."

-Blaise Pascal

"Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair."

-Blaise Pascal

"He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright."

-Blaise Pascal

"Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us."

-Blaise Pascal

"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."

-Blaise Pascal

"Faith is different from proof the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God."

-Blaise Pascal

"There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him."

-Blaise Pascal

"That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it."

-Blaise Pascal

"It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist."

-Blaise Pascal

"The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him."

-Blaise Pascal

"The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice."

-Blaise Pascal

"It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants."

-Blaise Pascal

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"Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary."

-Blaise Pascal

"The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion."

-Blaise Pascal

"The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it."

-Blaise Pascal

"The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched."

-Blaise Pascal

"The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death."

-Blaise Pascal

"Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us."

-Blaise Pascal

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"Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world."

-Blaise Pascal

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"Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world."

-Blaise Pascal

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"Imagination decides everything."

-Blaise Pascal

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"Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted."

-Blaise Pascal

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"Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed."

-Blaise Pascal

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"Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary."

-Blaise Pascal

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"Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science."

-Blaise Pascal

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"The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him."

-Blaise Pascal

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"When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before."

-Blaise Pascal

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"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."

-Blaise Pascal

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."

-Blaise Pascal

"There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous."

-Blaise Pascal

"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."

-Blaise Pascal

"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."

-Blaise Pascal

"The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion."

-Blaise Pascal

"Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience."

-Blaise Pascal

"Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true."

-Blaise Pascal

"Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness."

-Blaise Pascal

"Men blaspheme what they do not know."

-Blaise Pascal

"The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men."

-Blaise Pascal

"Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted."

-Blaise Pascal

"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."

-Blaise Pascal

"Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience."

-Blaise Pascal

"Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good."

-Blaise Pascal

"Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death."

-Blaise Pascal

"Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature."

-Blaise Pascal

"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."

-Blaise Pascal

"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed."

-Blaise Pascal

"Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?"

-Blaise Pascal

"Our 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