Quotes by Blaise Pascal
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
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.
Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.
I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.
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.
There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.
Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.
Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.