Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Blaise Pascal Quotes
ActionDesireForceInvoluntary ActionsVolition Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
ApproachabilityDivinityFaithHopeHumility Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
DisciplineModerationSelf-Control It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
BetrayalFriendshipGossipTrust If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Human ConditionHumilitySelf-awareness The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
Human ConditionImmortalitySignificanceSoul 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.
DivinityKnowledgeLove Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
AutonomyConvictionPersuasionSelf-Discovery 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.
ContradictionFalsityTruth Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
EquityGovernanceIntegrityJusticePower Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
AppreciationChangeContrastModeration Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
ChanceTransienceUncontrollability Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
ConcealmentContradictionDuplicityFalsehoodSelf-Deception We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
EvilHuman NatureRestlessness I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
ExplorationJourneyNatureUncertainty We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
MindfulnessPresenceSelf-awarenessTime If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
ExistenceGodMysteryParadox It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
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.
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.
CommunicationEffectLanguageMeaningPerception Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.