Blaise Pascal Quotes

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• Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
• Symmetry is what we see at a glance.
• Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from…
• Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that religion is not…
• Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they…
• Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.
• Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through…
• Look for the truth, it wants to be found....
• Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.
• Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live not a moment…
• All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.
• When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who are rushing on,…
• The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.
• Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.
• The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.
• Without the knowledge of our wretchedness, the knowledge of God creates pride. With it, the knowledge of God creates despair. The knowledge of Christ offers…
• It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.
• I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance,…
• When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad Christian than to…
• Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.

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