Blaise Pascal

“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.”

“Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see it is above, not against them.”

“Imagination decides everything.”

“Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.”

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

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

“As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.”

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

“Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.”

“Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.”

“Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.”

“We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.”

“If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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