Selected quotes · 38
№ 01
“When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.”
Blaise PascalLove
№ 02
“The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.”
Blaise PascalLove
№ 03
“Kind 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 PascalFaith
№ 04
“Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.”
Blaise PascalJustice
№ 05
“Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.”
Blaise PascalLife
№ 06
“Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.”
Blaise PascalLove
№ 07
“Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.”
Blaise PascalMindset
№ 08
“Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.”
Blaise PascalFaith
№ 09
“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 PascalFreedom
№ 10
“I have discovered that all human evil comes from this: man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.”
Blaise PascalLife
№ 11
“Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.”
Blaise PascalJustice
№ 12
“Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?”
Blaise PascalLife
№ 13
“Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.”
Blaise PascalFaith
№ 14
“Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.”
Blaise PascalFreedom
№ 15
“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.”
Blaise PascalFaith
№ 16
“The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.”
Blaise PascalWisdom
№ 17
“Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.”
Blaise PascalMindset
№ 18
“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”
Blaise PascalJustice
№ 19
“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
Blaise PascalSuccess
№ 20
“Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.”
Blaise PascalTime
№ 21
“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 PascalCreativity
№ 22
“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.”
Blaise PascalMindset
№ 23
“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 PascalHappiness
№ 24
“Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.”
Blaise PascalFaith
№ 25
“Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.”
Blaise PascalWisdom
№ 26
“We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.”
Blaise PascalCreativity
№ 27
“The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.”
Blaise PascalLife
№ 28
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
Blaise PascalCreativity
№ 29
“Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.”
Blaise PascalCreativity
№ 30
“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 PascalFaith
№ 31
“He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.”
Blaise PascalFaith
№ 32
“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.”
Blaise PascalNature
№ 33
“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 PascalNature
№ 34
“Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.”
Blaise PascalNature
№ 35
“Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.”
Blaise PascalFaith
№ 36
“If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.”
Blaise PascalFriendship
№ 37
“We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart.”
Blaise PascalCreativity
№ 38
“Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.”
Blaise PascalFaith