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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  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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.

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  Beautiful, Heart, Difficult Times

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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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• Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

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  Jesus, Christ, Knows

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.177, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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• 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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• Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

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  Giving, Vision, Sincere

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.317, 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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• 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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• 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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• Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

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  Ignorance, Men, Thinking

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• If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?

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  Ambition, Pride, Men

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

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  Lying, Power, Greatness

  Blaise Pascal (1950). “Pensées”

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• The only shame is to have none.

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  Guilt, Shame

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.74, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Pensees no. 680 (1658)

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• Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.

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  Men, Inability, Trouble

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• Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

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  Misery, Distraction, Console

  "The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent".

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• Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

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  Faith, Different, Proof

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, 1669.

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