Blaise Pascal Quotes - Page 2

To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

There is nothing we can now call our own, for what we call so is the effect of art; crimes are made by decrees of the senate, or by the votes of the people; and as here-to-fore we are burdened by vices, so now we are oppressed by laws.

There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature... and the thing which pleases us.

The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery without that of God causes despair. The knowledge of Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in Him we find both God and our misery.

Finally, let them recognise that 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.

Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.

Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything.

The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd.

It is not the length of years but a multitude of generations that makes things obscure. For truth is only perverted when men change.

Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.