If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God? Blaise Pascal More Quotes by Blaise Pascal More Quotes From Blaise Pascal There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the diverse lovable parts of that which it loves. Blaise Pascal viewsmathlove Little things console us because little things afflict us. Blaise Pascal little-thingslittlesinspirational Continuous eloquence wearies. Blaise Pascal eloquence The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material. Blaise Pascal atheistsouldoubt We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them. Blaise Pascal mercy-of-godforgivenessvices When one does not love too much, one does not love enough. Blaise Pascal too-muchenoughdoe Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you. Blaise Pascal achievementwiseyesterday 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. Blaise Pascal decisionlookspast Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering. Blaise Pascal lossmendeath Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure, and second, that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it. Blaise Pascal painreflectionself We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. Blaise Pascal dishonestyduplicitylying Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair. Blaise Pascal darknessmenjesus Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview. Too great length and too great brevity of discourse tends to obscurity; too much truth is paralyzing.... In short, extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them. Blaise Pascal distancelighttruth Love has reasons which reason cannot understand. Blaise Pascal reason-to-lovereason It is certain that those who have the living faith in their hearts see at once that all existence is none other than the work of the God whom they adore. But for those in whom this light is extinguished, [if we were to show them our proofs of the existence of God] nothing is more calculated to arouse their contempt. . . . Blaise Pascal prooflightheart 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. Blaise Pascal soulmatterfeelings So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities. Therefore those who have known God, without knowing their wretchedness, have not glorified Him, but have glorified themselves. Blaise Pascal wellssinknowing Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better. Blaise Pascal melancholypleasurechristian When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person. Blaise Pascal stylenaturalwriting There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them. Blaise Pascal all-that-remainsmaximsworld
