3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
