Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light is throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.
Blaise PascalMots clés inspirational
What must I do? I see nothing but obscurities on every side.'
'Shall I believe I am nothing? Shall I believe I am God?
Pride counterbalances all these miseries; man either hides or displays them, and glories in his awareness of them.
Blaise PascalHabit is a second nature thta destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Blaise PascalThe only religion which is against nature, against common sense and against our pleasures is the only one which has always existed.
Blaise PascalSceptic, mathematician, Christian; doubt, affirmation, submission.
Blaise PascalThis religion so great in miracles, in men holy, pure and irreproachable, in scholars, great witnesses and martyrs, established kings - David - Isaiah, a prince of the blood; so great in knowledge, after displaying all its miracles and all its wisdom, rejects it all and says that it offers neither wisdom nor signs, but only the Cross and folly.
Blaise PascalThose who have known God without knowing their own wretchedness have not glorified him but themselves.
Blaise PascalFor, after all, what is man in nature? ...a middle point between all and nothing...What else can he do, then, but perceive some semblance of the middle of things, eternally hopeless of knowing either their principles or their end? All things have come out of nothingness and are carried onwards to infinity. Who can follow these astonishing processes? The author of these wonders understands them: no one else can.
Blaise PascalEverything that is incomprehensible does not cease to exist.
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