Blaise Pascal Quotes

Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

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

The struggle alone pleases us not the victory.

As we are always preparing to be happy it is inevitable that we should never be so.

The past and present are only our means the future is always our end. Thus we never really live but only hope to live.

Let it not be said that I have said nothing new. The arrangement of the material is new.

I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter.

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom through thought I comprehend the world.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.