Blaise Pascal Quotes

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

At some point in your life, you try to self-reflect and ask yourself, 'Why do I want to win so bad?'

No sickness worse than imagining thyself to be perfect can afflict thy soul.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

A man's conflicts represent what he 'really' is.

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

Some of the things I'm most proud of, it isn't because I think it's my best work; it's because of something that it's taught me.

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.