Blaise Pascal

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

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

Imagination decides everything.

Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

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

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

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.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

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

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.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

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.

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

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

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

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

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

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.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.