ÀÏ»¢»úÎÈÓ®·½·¨

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
― Blaise Pascal

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
― Blaise Pascal, ±Ê±ð²Ô²õé±ð²õ

“You always admire what you really don't understand.”
― Blaise Pascal

“Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.”
― Blaise Pascal, ±Ê±ð²Ô²õé±ð²õ

“Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
― Blaise Pascal

“Little things comfort us because little things distress us.”
― Blaise Pascal, ±Ê±ð²Ô²õé±ð²õ and Other Writings

“It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.”
― Blaise Pascal

“All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.”
― Blaise Pascal

“Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.”
― Blaise Pascal

“Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.”
― Blaise Pascal

“Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.
(Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)”
― Blaise Pascal, Pascal's Pensees

“By space the universe encompasses me and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.”
― Blaise Pascal

“Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference...”
― Blaise Pascal, ±Ê±ð²Ô²õé±ð²õ

“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?”
― Blaise Pascal

“If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.”
― Blaise Pascal, ±Ê±ð²Ô²õé±ð²õ

“When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, or what will become of him when he dies, incapable of knowing anything, I am moved to terror, like a man transported in his sleep to some terrifying desert island, who wakes up quite lost, with no means of escape. Then I marvel that so wretched a state does not drive people to despair.”
― Blaise Pascal

“I ask you neither for health nor for sickness, for life nor for death; but that you may dispose of my health and my sickness, my life and my death, for your glory ... You alone know what is expedient for me; you are the sovereign master, do with me according to your will. Give to me, or take away from me, only conform my will to yours. I know but one thing, Lord, that it is good to follow you, and bad to offend you. Apart from that, I know not what is good or bad in anything. I know not which is most profitable to me, health or sickness, wealth or poverty, nor anything else in the world. That discernment is beyond the power of men or angels, and is hidden among the secrets of your providence, which I adore, but do not seek to fathom.”
― Blaise Pascal

“When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.”
― Blaise Pascal

“Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?”
― Blaise Pascal

“Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.”
― Blaise Pascal, ±Ê±ð²Ô²õé±ð²õ

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.”
― Blaise Pascal

“The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.”
― Blaise Pascal

“Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.”
― Blaise Pascal, ±Ê±ð²Ô²õé±ð²õ

“Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.”
― Blaise Pascal

“A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.”
― Blaise Pascal, ±Ê±ð²Ô²õé±ð²õ

“Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.”
― Blaise Pascal

“Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.”
― Blaise Pascal

“If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the lost effort is negligible in comparison to what is at risk in not seeking God in the first place. ”
― Blaise Pascal

“And if one loves me for my judgement, memory, he does not love me, for I can lose these qualities without losing myself. Where, then, is this Ego, if it be neither in the body nor in the soul? And how love the body or the soul, except for these qualities which do not constitute me, since they are perishable? For it is impossible and would be unjust to love the soul of a person in the abstract and whatever qualities might be therein. We never, then, love a person, but only qualities.
Let us, then, jeer no more at those who are honoured on account of rank and office; for we love a person only on account of borrowed qualities.”
― Blaise Pascal, ±Ê±ð²Ô²õé±ð²õ

“Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.”
― Blaise Pascal