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Blaise Pascal Quotes - Page 2

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Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.

Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.

Happiness, Unions

"Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects".

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

Inspirational, Sad, Religious

Pensees no. 894 (1670 ed.)

Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.

Endurance, Fading, Limits

We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.

Real, Eye, People

Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light is throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.

Mean, Past, Thinking

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

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.

Faith, Wise, Gains

"Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, 1669.

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

Men, Fool, Doe

Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.222

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

Truth, Soul, Investing

Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.

Jesus, Pride, Knowing

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

If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?

Ambition, Pride, Men

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!

Names, Littles, Helping

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

Wisdom, Addiction, Limits

Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.

Men, Inability, Trouble

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

Ignorance, Men, Thinking

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

Math, Ordinary Extraordinary, Intelligence

Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.

Jesus, Men, Enemy

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

Inspirational, Men, Vision

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

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

Misery, Distraction, Console

"The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent".

When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.

Math, Intuition, Logic

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

Spiritual, Heart, Vacuums

Faith is a gift of God.

Gift From God

Blaise Pascal, James M. Houston (2006). “The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent”, p.215, David C Cook

What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.

Differences, Knowing, Loving Him

Blaise Pascal (1962). “Pensées”

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

Love, Native American, Religion

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.

God, Heart, Existentialism

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

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Lying, Power, Greatness

Blaise Pascal (1950). “Pensées”

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