Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
BLAISE PASCALMankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
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Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn’t than live as if he doesn’t exist to find out He does.
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And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?
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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
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There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
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How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
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Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
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Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men’s souls, and a beautiful image it is.
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Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.
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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
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