Blaise Pascal

“Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.”

“Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.”

“Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.”

“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”

“Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.”

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

“The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.”

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

“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.”

“Imagination decides everything.”

“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.”

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

“Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.”

“It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.”

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

“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.”

“Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.”

“Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.”

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

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