Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Blaise Pascal Quotes
SoulImmortalitySignificanceHuman Condition The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
LoveKnowledgeDivinity Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
FalsehoodDuplicityContradictionSelf-deceptionConcealment We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
ChanceTransienceUncontrollability Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
JourneyUncertaintyExplorationNature We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
ChangeAppreciationContrastModeration Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
MonotheismReasonRational ThoughtHuman UnderstandingDivine Truth That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
HabitNaturePhilosophy Habit is a second nature that 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.
JusticePowerEquityIntegrityGovernance Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
LanguageCommunicationMeaningPerceptionEffect Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
Self-awarenessHumilityHuman Condition The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
EvilRestlessnessHuman Nature I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
DesireForceActionVolitionInvoluntary Actions Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
MindfulnessPresenceTimeSelf-awareness If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
ModerationSelf-ControlDiscipline It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
FriendshipTrustGossipBetrayal If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
ContradictionTruthFalsity Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Self-DiscoveryPersuasionConvictionAutonomy People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
FaithSensesTranscendence Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
FaithHumilityApproachabilityDivinityHope Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
DeathMortalityFinality The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
GodExistenceMysteryParadox It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
FaultsSelf-awarenessSelf-deception Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
FameDesire For RecognitionRationalizationObsessionTransformation The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
TruthModeration Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
BrevityTimeEffort The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
LoveTransformation When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
LoveSelf-awarenessEmotional NeedsExistenceInner Feelings We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.
Self-deceptionAuthenticityImaginationBeliefHeart Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
BalanceHarmonyAuthorityFairnessTyranny Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
CertaintyReligionUncertaintyCourageFaith If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
Public SpeakingAudience InfluenceInspirationPerformance There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.
WarInjusticeConflictAbsurdity Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
JusticeTruthLimitation Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
EvilRestlessnessPatience All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
ThoughtHumanityMindIdentityConsciousness I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.
ReasonWisdomObedienceConsequence Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.
PerspectiveIndividualityDifferenceAcceptance We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.