The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted. Blaise Pascal More Quotes by Blaise Pascal More Quotes From Blaise Pascal Continued eloquence is wearisome. Blaise Pascal eloquence The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth. Blaise Pascal environmentaland-lovechristian The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny. Blaise Pascal unitytyrannyconfusion Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies. Blaise Pascal mindwinningscience Opinion is the queen of the world. Blaise Pascal opinionqueensworld Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny. Blaise Pascal multitudesunitytyranny The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family. Blaise Pascal shipscaptainspolitics Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject. Blaise Pascal strangedesiremen The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble. Blaise Pascal pebblesaffectedocean Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything to everyone. We must not judge nature by ourselves, but by its own standards. Blaise Pascal judgingmenthinking When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there … now instead of then. Blaise Pascal infinitespaceeternity In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a tempest upon an unknown island, the inhabitants of which were in trouble to find Blaise Pascal strongrealkings The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts. Blaise Pascal brainheart The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition. Blaise Pascal reasonperfectfall That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides that which we love. Blaise Pascal love-isneedsthinking Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent. Blaise Pascal silentsaintsilence The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God. Blaise Pascal soulimaginationtalking The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine volition...Rather, everything small and large is written and comes to be in a known and expected measure. Blaise Pascal gistdivineevil The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid and Blaise Pascal ridiculousfoolishmind All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves. Blaise Pascal motiveexceptionmen
