Blaise Pascal Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.”

“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.”

“Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.”

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

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

“We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.”

“People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.”

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

“Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.”