Blaise Pascal Quotes

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Every person who is tempted to go astray does not deserve punishment

Today's man of the world proclaims that sin, and his enterprising in sin, are a part of modern living, but it is not modern. It goes back to Adam and Eve - to desire and the temptation to know - to experience evil.

No one is above temptation. No one is above life in general.

I want to make people see that evil is seductive and that we need to be careful.

Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.

We all have the ability to be dangerous and do things which are morally wrong.

God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.

We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.

If you look at the Bible and you look at Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, we all know who sinned first. Ladies, do you have to eat everything?

Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices and sins.

The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.

The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?

When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone.

Sins are timeless. Sins are an everyday reality for every one. Sin has been in existence since the beginning of man, since Adam and Eve. It will always be pertinent.

I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.

People who have lust in their heart as just as guilty as those who commit adultery.

Eve didn't choose to eat the apple. She was tempted by the serpent." "Yes," I argue, thoughts coming out half-formed. "But...she didn't have to take a bite. She chose to.