Blaise Pascal Quotes on Happiness (11 Quotes)

Imagination cannot make fools wise but she can make them happy, to the envy of reason, who can only make her friends miserable

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.

The present is never our goal the past and present are our means the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never live but we hope to live and always hoping to be happy, it is inevitable that we will never be so.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

We never live, but we hope to live and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

There are only three types of people those who have found God and serve him those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.

What does this desire and this inability of ours proclaim to us but that there was once in man a genuine happiness, of which nothing now survives but the mark and the empty outline and this he vainly tries to fill from everything that lies around him, seeking from things that are not there the help that he does not get from those that are present Yet they are quite incapable of filling the gap, because this infinite gulf can only be filled by an infinite and immutable object - that is, God, Himself. He alone is man's veritable good, and since man has deserted Him it is a strange thing that there is nothing in nature that has not been capable of taking His place for man stars, sky, earth, elements, plants, cabbages, leeks, animals, insects, calves, serpents, fever, plague, war, famine, vices, adultery, incest. And since he has lost the true good, everything can equally appear to him as such - even his own destruction, though that is so contrary at once to God, to reason, and to nature.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

Thus we never live, but we hope to live and always disposing ourselves to be happy, it is inevitable that we never become so.