Pascal Quotes
One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.
Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
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.
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
You're happy when you leave your concerns to the side and when you experience a pure moment of joy with friends.
Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts.
To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.
If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy.
It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.
All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace.
Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
I love tunnels. They 're the symbol of hope: sometime it will be bright again. If by chance it is not night.
It's always difficult to tell someone when they're still in love with someone that I think they're going in the wrong way.
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
We should distinguish between responsibility and guilt. Guilt only touches the ones who committed the crimes but the son of a criminal is not a criminal himself.
Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.
Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.
The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.
Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.
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.
The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.
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.
To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.
If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it's possible, in everything.
We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.
The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.
