Blaise Pascal Quotes
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. 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. In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer. It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist. It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false. It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants. It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. 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. Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established. Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. Law, without force, is impotent. Little things console us because little things afflict us. Love has reasons which reason cannot understand. Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
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