All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. Blaise Pascal on alone
The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. Blaise Pascal on alone
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. Blaise Pascal on alone
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them. Blaise Pascal on art
Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. Blaise Pascal on beauty
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. Blaise Pascal on business
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves. Blaise Pascal on change
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all. Blaise Pascal on death
Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death. Blaise Pascal on death
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. Blaise Pascal on death
Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience. Blaise Pascal on experience
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 proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. Blaise Pascal on faith
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. Blaise Pascal on faith
Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them. Blaise Pascal on faith
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason. Blaise Pascal on faith
Faith is different from proof the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. Blaise Pascal on faith
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see it is above, not against them. Blaise Pascal on faith
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other. Blaise Pascal on faith
We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured. Blaise Pascal on faith
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. Blaise Pascal on future