Pensées and Other Writings by Blaise Pascal

(New York: Oxford University Press, 2020-04-23), 320

Penseés by Blaise Pascal

Pascal's wager: "I should be much more frightened of being wrong and finding out that the Christian religion was true than of being wrong in believing it to be true." (6)
The unity of the Old and New Testaments: "The two Testaments look to Jesus Christ, the Old as its expectation and the New as its model, and both have him as their centre." (7)
"The true nature of man, his true good, true virtue, and true religion, cannot be known separately." (12)
"Happiness is neither outside us nor within us. It is God, both outside and within us." (26)
"Respect means to go out of your way for others." (115)
"Wisdom leads us back to childhood." (116, cf. Mt-18: "unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven")
"Justice without strength is powerless. Strength without justice is tyrannical." (135)
"I have often said that man's unhappiness springs from one thing alone, his incapacity to stay quietly in one room." (168)

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Updated: 2023-02-05-Sun