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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

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.

Blaise Pascal
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...?

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

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

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

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.

Blaise Pascal
Jesus, Humble, Pride

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

Blaise Pascal
Humility, Pride, Math

Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.

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Humble, Humility, Pride
Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.127, Cosimo, Inc.

Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind or smoke, and saying it moreover in tones of pride and satisfaction? Is this then something to be said gaily? Is it not on the contrary something to be said sadly, as being the saddest thing in the world?

Blaise Pascal
Pride, Thinking, Wind
Blaise Pascal (2008). “Human Happiness”, Penguin Group USA

Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.

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Sacrifice, Pride, Joy
Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.89

What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?

Blaise Pascal
Truth, Pride, Men

The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about the misery of man, and they tempt you to despair.

Blaise Pascal
Pride, Men, Despair
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Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause believers to affirm. Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, few doubtingly of scepticism.

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Humble, Humility, Pride
Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.142, Open Road Media

Without the knowledge of our wretchedness, the knowledge of God creates pride. With it, the knowledge of God creates despair. The knowledge of Christ offers a third way, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.

Blaise Pascal
Hope, Pride, Despair

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