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Blaise Pascal Quotes

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If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

Believe, If There Is A God, God And Life

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.

God, Spiritual, Jesus

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Love, Religion, Truth Is

Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.307, Cosimo, Inc.

Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

Death, Suicide, Years

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

Inspirational, Peace, Hipster

Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, you've gained God, heaven, and everything else. If it's false, you've lost nothing, but you've had a good life marked by peace and the illusion that ultimately, everything makes sense. If you bet that Christianity is not true, and it's false, you've lost nothing. But if you bet that it's false, and it turns out to be true, you've lost everything and you get to spend eternity in hell.

Good Life, Believe, Heaven

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

People, Belief, Attractive

"'De l'Art de persuader' ('On the Art of Persuasion')". Book by Blaise Pascal, 1658.

In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.

Beautiful, Heart, Difficult Times

The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.

Dog, Mankind, My Dog

The best defense against logic is ignorance.

Ignorance, Math, Defense

There 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 are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.

People, Unhappy, Three

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

Men, Thinking, Righteous Living

Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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

Faith, Different, Proof

"Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, 1669.

One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.

Spiritual, Men, Thinking

The only shame is to have none.

Guilt, Shame

Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.74, Cosimo, Inc.

Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.

Thoughtful, Men, Thinking

It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.

Song, Writing, Impact

Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

Jesus, Christ, Knows

Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.177, Cosimo, Inc.

Not 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 know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

Christian, Jesus, Life And Death

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

I 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.

Doe, God Exists, Ifs

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Kindness, Character, Accomplish Nothing

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Love, Inspirational, Life

Pensees no. 680 (1658)

Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.

Jesus, Enemy, Islam

Blaise Pascal, Isaac Taylor (1838). “Thoughts on Religion and Philosophy”, p.202

Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.

Anxiety, Darkness, Purpose

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Math, Men, Logic

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