Blaise Pascal

Vanity is but the surface. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#vanity

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#before #despair #god #humble #jesus

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

— Blaise Pascal

#beings #divine #human #human beings #known

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

— Blaise Pascal

#believe #blind #enough #light #shadows

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

— Blaise Pascal

#alone #being #derive #men #miseries

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#before #different #ourselves #quite #seem

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#justice #powerless #tyrannical #without

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#gain #hesitation #lose #nothing #then

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

— Blaise Pascal

#completely #conviction #evil #men #never

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#anything #because #him #his #i