“We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensees


“The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing.”
― Blaise Pascal


“It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.”
― Blaise Pascal


“People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.”
― Blaise Pascal, De l'art de persuader


“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”
― Blaise Pascal


“To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées


“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”
― Blaise Pascal


“The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.”
― Blaise Pascal


“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées


“If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées


“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées


“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées


“There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God the Creator, made known through Jesus Christ.”
― Blaise Pascal


“Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride. Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair. Knowing Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées


“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.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées


“In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.”
― Blaise Pascal


“There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition”
― Blaise Pascal


“Atheists. What grounds have they for saying that no one can rise from the dead? Which is harder, to be born or to rise again? That what has never been should be, or that what has been should be once more? Is it harder to come into existence than to come back? Habit makes us find the one easy, while lack of habit makes us find the other impossible.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées


“To understand is to forgive.”
― Pascal


“The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées


“Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
― Blaise Pascal


“The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.”
― Blaise Pascal


“Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.”
― Blaise Pascal


These quotes can be found here:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/10994.Blaise_Pascal?page=1


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https://www.ltw.org/listen

https://tonyevans.org/

https://www.youtube.com/user/RabbiSchneider/featured