Blaise Pascal Quotes About Happiness

Quotes about: Happiness

• Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

  Blaise Pascal

  Happiness, Knowing, Silence

• The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Happiness, Beauty

  "Pensées".

• 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

  Happiness, War, Mean

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

• Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.

  Blaise Pascal

  Happiness, Unions

  "Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects".

• Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy in it; if that man is left at any time without occupation or amusement, and reflects on what he is, the meagre, languid felicity of his present lot will not bear him up. He will turn necessarily to gloomy anticipations of the future; and unless his occupation calls him out of himself, he is inevitably wretched.

  Blaise Pascal

  Happiness, Men, Occupation

• Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.

  Blaise Pascal

  Happiness, Searching For Happiness, Exception

• To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

  Blaise Pascal

  Happiness, Greatest Love, Amusement

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.266

• All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

  Blaise Pascal

  Happiness, Mean, Men

• If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

  Blaise Pascal

  Happiness, God, Men

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.49, Courier Corporation

• There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.

  Blaise Pascal

  Happiness, Men, Trying

  Pensees no. 181 (1658). Popularly paraphrased as "There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart."

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