959 Quotes by Blaise Pascal

Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher. Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer?

Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.

Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.

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

When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, or what will become of him when he dies, incapable of knowing anything, I am moved to terror, like a man transported in his sleep to some terrifying desert island, who wakes up quite lost, with no means of escape. Then I marvel that so wretched a state does not drive people to despair.

All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theater. It is a representation of the passions so natural and so delicate that it excites them and gives birth to them in our hearts, and, above all, to that of love.