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Blaise Pascal Quotes about Happiness

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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.

Blaise Pascal
Happiness, Unions
"Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects".

All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.

Blaise Pascal
Happiness, War, Mean
Blaise Pascal (1959). “Pascal's Pensées: Selections”, p.114, Prabhat Prakashan

Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.

Blaise Pascal
Happiness, Searching For Happiness, Exception

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

Blaise Pascal
Happiness, Knowing, Silence

There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.

Blaise Pascal
Happiness, Men, Trying
Pensees no. 181 (1658). Popularly paraphrased as "There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart."

The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.

Blaise Pascal
Inspirational, Happiness, Beauty
"Pensées".

If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

Blaise Pascal
Happiness, God, Men
Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.49, Courier Corporation

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Blaise Pascal
Happiness, Greatest Love, Amusement
Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.266

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

Blaise Pascal
Happiness, Mean, Men

Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy in it; if that man is left at any time without occupation or amusement, and reflects on what he is, the meagre, languid felicity of his present lot will not bear him up. He will turn necessarily to gloomy anticipations of the future; and unless his occupation calls him out of himself, he is inevitably wretched.

Blaise Pascal
Happiness, Men, Occupation

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