Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. – Blaise Pascal
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before. – Blaise Pascal
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. – Blaise Pascal
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed. – Blaise Pascal
Imagination decides everything. – Blaise Pascal
Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted. – Blaise Pascal
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. – Blaise Pascal
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched. – Blaise Pascal
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. – Blaise Pascal
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. – Blaise Pascal
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants. – Blaise Pascal
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us. – Blaise Pascal
There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him. – Blaise Pascal
That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it. – Blaise Pascal
It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist. – Blaise Pascal
The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him. – Blaise Pascal
The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice. – Blaise Pascal
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. – Blaise Pascal
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. – Blaise Pascal
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. – Blaise Pascal
