“It is natural for the mind to believe, and for the will to love; [47] so that, for want of true objects,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Either God exists or He doesn't. Either I believe in God or I don't. Of the four possibilities, only one is to… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to explain too clearly to man how like he is to the animals without pointing out his greatness. It… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are three means of believing--by inspiration, by reason, and by custom. Christianity, which is the only rational institution, does yet admit… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
To deny, to believe, and to doubt well are to a man as the race is to a horse. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All men are almost led to believe not of proof, but by attraction. This way is base, ignoble, and irrelevant; every one… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If you believe in God you are at no disadvantage in this life, and at considerable advantage in the next. If you… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke that he… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The incredulous are the more credulous. They believe the miracles of Vespasian that they may not believe those of Moses. [Fr., Incredules… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Il n'y a que deux sortes d'hommes: les uns justes, qui se croient pe cheurs; les autres pe cheurs, qui se croient… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Je ne crois que les histoires dont les te moins se feraient e gorger. I only believe in histories told by witnesses… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
How I hate this folly of not believing in the Eucharist, etc.! If the gospel be true, if Jesus Christ be God,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If we dreamed the same thing every night, it would affect us much as the objects we see every day. And if… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
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![“You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot of it (as I have many reasons for believing, although everyone who has so far written about it is of the contrary opinion), it follows that the weight of the air must be the sole cause of the…” quote by Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f38/blaise-pascal-167_abhorrence_you-see-if-the-height-of-the-mercury-bar_797719.jpg)
![“The incredulous are the more credulous. They believe the miracles of Vespasian that they may not believe those of Moses. [Fr., Incredules les plus credules. Ils croient les miracle de Vespasien, pour ne pas croire ceux de Moise.]” quote by Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/38d/blaise-pascal-167_belief_the-incredulous-are-the-more-credulous-t_1713447.jpg)
