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Blaise Pascal Quotes - Page 9

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Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.

Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.

Deeds, Good Deeds, Admirable

For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.

Nature, Miracle, Grace

Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.190, Courier Corporation

There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man without God, or the strength of man with God.

Men, Mercy Of God, Doe

Blaise Pascal, James M. Houston (2006). “The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent”, p.53, David C Cook

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

Fear, Hate, Men

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.300, Courier Corporation

What amazes me most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.

Weakness, Amazed

"Human Happiness".

One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.

Men, Practice, Names

The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from age to age; and although she is always the same in herself, she is not always equally well known.

Nature, Agency, Secret

Blaise Pascal, Nkosi Ajanaku (1838). “Thoughts on Religion and Philosophy”, p.337

Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.

Children, Parent, Firsts

Blaise Pascal (1828). “Thoughts on religion, and other subjects”, p.112

It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him.

Reading, Literature

Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.24, Cosimo, Inc.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

Would Be, Facts, Scepticism

"Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works".

Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.

Strong, Justice, Social Justice

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

Eye, Views, Two Sides

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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

Men, Matter, Strange

It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in the principles of morals. Yet philosophers have arranged their moral system entirely independent of this. What an extraordinary blindness!

Independent, Differences, Decision

Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.215

If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.

God, Religion God, Manifest

Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.176, Letcetera Publishing

The man who knows God but does not know his own misery, becomes proud. The man who knows his own misery but does not know God, ends in despair...the knowledge of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course because in him we find both God and our own misery. Jesus Christ is therefore a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.

Jesus, Humble, Pride

St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities are the Serpent; the excitable desire is the Eve; and reason is the Adam. Our nature tempts us perpetually; criminal desire is often excited; but sin is not completed till reason consents.

Men, Temptation, Desire

Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.371

Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better.

Christian, Melancholy, Pleasure

Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.

Looks, Instinct, Teach

If ignorance were bliss, he'd be a blister

Ignorance, Bliss, Blisters

When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.

Doe, Too Much, Enough

Il n'y a que deux sortes d'hommes: les uns justes, qui se croient pe cheurs; les autres pe cheurs, qui se croient justes. There are only two types of people: the virtuous who believe themselves to be sinners and the sinners who believe themselves to be virtuous.

Believe, Two, People

c.1654-1662 Pense es, pt.7, no.534.

All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what they are: it being difficult for those who regard themselves at heart as equal with all men... For this it is necessary for one to forget himself, and to believe that he has some real excellence above them, in which consists this illusion that I am endeavoring to discover to you.

Real, Believe, Heart

Blaise Pascal (1961). “Thoughts”

If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others.

May, Praise, Conviction

There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of doubt. The former leads to hope, as relying on God, in whom we believe; the latter inclines to despair, as not relying on God, in whom we do not believe. Persons of the one character fear to lose God; persons of the other character fear to find Him.

Fear, Believe, Character

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 244, 1895.

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