Top Blaise Pascal Quotes About Mathematics, Philosophy, And Religion

If I believe in God in life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything. Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. 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. Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years. All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof, but on the basis of what they find attractive. Indifficult times carry something beautiful in your heart. All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms. The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason. It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs. The more I see of mankind, the more I prefer my dog. We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything. Imagination decides everything. One half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for 30 minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts. Mankind suffers from two excesses, to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason. Justice without force is powerless, force without justice is tyrannical. 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. Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.