Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

"Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them."
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"Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them."
Blaise Pascal
"Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God."
Blaise Pascal
"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't."
Blaise Pascal
"The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion."
Blaise Pascal
"Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately."
Blaise Pascal
"Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists."
Blaise Pascal
"Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience."
Blaise Pascal
"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."
Blaise Pascal
"The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice."
Blaise Pascal
"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."
Blaise Pascal
"Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them."
Blaise Pascal
"Man's greatness lies in his power of thought."
Blaise Pascal
"Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just."
Blaise Pascal
"It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants."
Blaise Pascal
"Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known."
Blaise Pascal
"If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!"
Blaise Pascal
"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing."
Blaise Pascal
"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world."
Blaise Pascal
"Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us."
Blaise Pascal
"The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death."
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