3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth give him too much, the same.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal 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.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Faith is different from proof the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal 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.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
