Blaise Pascal Quotes

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• 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 Creator, made known through Jesus.

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  God, Spiritual, Jesus

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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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  Love, Religion, Truth Is

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.307, Cosimo, Inc.

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  If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

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  Believe, If There Is A God, God And Life

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• All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

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  Inspirational, Peace, Hipster

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• Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

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  Death, Suicide, Years

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• Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, you've gained God, heaven, and everything else. If it's false, you've lost nothing, but you've had a good life marked by peace and the illusion that ultimately, everything makes sense. If you bet that Christianity is not true, and it's false, you've lost nothing. But if you bet that it's false, and it turns out to be true, you've lost everything and you get to spend eternity in hell.

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  Good Life, Believe, Heaven

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• In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.

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  Beautiful, Heart, Difficult Times

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• People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

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  People, Belief, Attractive

  "'De l'Art de persuader' ('On the Art of Persuasion')". Book by Blaise Pascal, 1658.

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• The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.

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  Dog, Mankind, My Dog

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• The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

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  Math, Men, Logic

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• One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.

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  Spiritual, Men, Thinking

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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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  Found, United

  Blaise Pascal, Nkosi Ajanaku (1838). “Thoughts on Religion and Philosophy”, p.56

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• There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.

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  People, Unhappy, Three

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• The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

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  Soul, Feelings, Matter

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.70, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

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  Inspirational, Men, Vision

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.

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  Jesus, Men, Enemy

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• 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.

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  Happiness, War, Mean

  Blaise Pascal (1959). “Pascal's Pensées: Selections”, p.114, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.

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  Thoughtful, Men, Thinking

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• Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

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  Inspirational, Sad, Religious

  Pensees no. 894 (1670 ed.)

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• Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.

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  Anxiety, Darkness, Purpose

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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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  Men, Thinking, Righteous Living

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

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  Truth, Soul, Investing

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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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  Love, Native American, Religion

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• Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light is throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.

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  Mean, Past, Thinking

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

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  Life, Faith, Christian

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, 1669.

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