Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher.
Born: June 19, 1623, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Died: August 19, 1662, Paris, France
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
We never love a person, but only qualities
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
You always admire what you really don’t understand.
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
Imagination decides everything.
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.
Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.
The power of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing.
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.
