He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide. Blaise Pascal More Quotes by Blaise Pascal More Quotes From Blaise Pascal When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who are rushing on, by acting as a fixed point. Blaise Pascal rushingactingmoving Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed. Blaise Pascal deeds-and-wordsinspirationallife We never love a person, but only qualities. Blaise Pascal qualitypersonslove If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the lost effort is negligible in comparison to what is at risk in not seeking God in the first place. Blaise Pascal effortriskerrors Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason. Blaise Pascal excesssufferingtwo Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves. Blaise Pascal menenemyjesus There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition Blaise Pascal obscuritylightdesire Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him. Blaise Pascal speakall-thingsknows If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing. Blaise Pascal religiousdoebelieve Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder. Blaise Pascal strangelittlesmen When intuition and logic agree, you are always right. Blaise Pascal intuitionlogicmath Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it. Blaise Pascal purposetruthlong Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race. Blaise Pascal gardenracejesus It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles. Blaise Pascal reasonablemiracleimpossible The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others. Blaise Pascal originalityintelligentmen If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing. Blaise Pascal opinionifswant We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own. Blaise Pascal timepastthinking Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? Blaise Pascal riversmenpeace The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. Blaise Pascal differencesordinarymen Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him. Blaise Pascal unitedfound
