Blaise Pascal Quotes

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• That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told…
• The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
• There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the…
• 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…
• Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
• All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
• Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
• Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
• Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
• In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
• Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
• There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
• Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
• Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
• When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
• Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
• If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.
• All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
• Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
• All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

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