Pascal's Pensées · OmniClassics

the seventy weeks of, 722 David, a saying of, 689; the eternal reign of the race of, 716, 717 Death, easier to bear without thinking of it, 166; men do not think of, 168; fear of, 215, 216; examples of the noble deaths of the Lacedæmonians, 481 Deference, meaning of, 317 Deeds, noble, best when hidden, 159 Deism, as far removed from Christianity as atheism, 555 Democritus, saying of, 72 Demonstrations, not certain that there are true, 387 Descartes, 76, 77, 78, 79 Devil, the, and miracle, 803; the, and doctrine, 819 Disciples, and true disciples, 518 Discourses, on humility, 377 Diseases, a source of error, 82 Disproportion of man, 72 Diversion, reason why men seek, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 168, 170 Docility, 254 Doctor, the, 12 Doctrine, and miracles, 802, 842 Dogmatism, and scepticism, 434 Dream, life like a, 386 Duty, and the passions, 104 Ecclesiastes, 389 Eclipses, why said to foretoken misfortune, 173 Ego, what is the, 323; consists in thought, 469 Egyptians, conversion of the, 724 Elect, the, ignorant of their virtues, 514; all things work together for good to the, 574 Eloquence, 15, 16, 25, 26 Emilius, Paulus, 409, 410 Enemies, meaning of, in the prophecies, 570, 691 Epictetus, 80, 466, 467 Error, a common, when advantageous, 18 Esdras, the story in, 631, 632, 633 Eternity, existence of, 195 Ethics, consoles us, 67; a special science, 911 Eucharist, the, 224, 512, 788 Evangelists, the, painted a perfectly heroic soul in Jesus Christ, 799 Evil, infinite forms of, 408 Examples, in demonstration, 40 Exception, and the rule, 832, 903 Excuses, on, 58 External, the, must be joined to the internal, 250 Ezekiel, spoke evil of Israel, 885 Faith, different from proof, 248; and miracle, 263; and the senses, 264; what is, 278; without, man cannot know the true good or justice, 425; consists in Jesus Christ, 522 Fancy, effects of, 86; confused with feeling, 274 Faults, we owe a great debt to those who point out, 534 Fear, good and bad, 262 Feeling, and reasoning, 3, 274; harmed in the same way as the understanding, 6 Flies, the power of, 366, 367 Friend, importance of a true, 155 Fundamentals, the two, 804 Galilee, the word, 743 Gentiles, conversion of the, 712; calling of the, 713 Gentleman, the universal quality, 35; man never taught to be a, 68 Glory, 151, 401; the greatest baseness of man is the pursuit of, 404 God, the conduct of, 185; is infinite, 231, 233; infinitely incomprehensible, 233; we should wager that there is a, 233; a _Deus absconditus,_ 194, 242; knowledge of, is not the love of Him, 280; two kinds of persons know, 288; has created all for Himself, 314; the wisdom of, 430; must reign over all, 460; we must love Him only, 479; not true that all reveals, 556; has willed to blind some and to enlighten others, 565, 575; foresaw heresies, 578; has willed to hide Himself, 584; formed for Himself the Jewish people, 643; the word does not differ from the intention in, 653; the greatness of His compassion, 847; has not wanted to absolve without the Church, 869 Godliness, why difficult, 498 Good, the inquiry into the sovereign, 73, 462 Gospel, the style of the, admirable, 797 Grace, unites us to God, 430, 507; necessary to turn a man into a saint, 508; the law and, 519, 521; nature and, 520; morality and, 522; man's capacity for, 523 Great, the, and the humble have the same misfortunes, 180 Greatness, the, of man, 397, 398, 400, 409; constituted by thought, 346; even in his lust, 402, 403; and wretchedness of man, 416, 417, 418, 423, 430, 443 Haggai, 725 Happiness, all men seek, 425; is in God, 465 Happy, in order to be, man does not think of death, 169 Hate, all men naturally, one another, 451 Heart, the, has its reasons, 277; experiences God, 278; we know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the, 282; has its own order, 283 Heresy, 774; source of all, 861 Heretics, and the three marks of religion, 843, 844; and the Jesuits, 890 Herod, 178, 179 Hosts, the three, 177 Image, an, of the condition of men, 199 Imagination, that deceitful part in man, 82; enlarges little objects, 84; magnifies a nothing, 85; often mistaken for the heart, 275; judges, etc., appeal only to the, 307 Inconstancy, in, 112, 113 Infinite, the, of greatness and of littleness, 72; and the finite, 233 Injustice, 214, 191, 293, 326, 878 Instability, 212 Intellect, different kinds of, 2 Isaiah, 712, 725 Jacob, 612, 710 Jansenists, the, are persecuted, 859; are like the heretics, 886 Jeremiah, 713, 818 Jesuits, the, unjust persecutors, 851; hardness of the, 853; and Jansenists, 864; impose upon the Pope, 881; effects of their sins, 918; do not keep their word, 923 Jesus Christ employs the rule of love, 283; is a God whom we approach without pride, 527; His teaching, 544; without, man must be in misery, 545; God known only through, 546; we know ourselves only through, 547; useless to know God without, 548; the sepulchre of, 551; the mystery of, 552; and His wounds, 553; genealogy of, 577; came at the time foretold, 669; necessary for Him to suffer, 678; the Messiah, 719; prophecies about, 730, 733, 734; foretold, and was foretold, 738; how regarded by the Old and New Testaments, 239; what the prophets say of, 750; His office, 765; typified by Joseph, 767; what He came to say, 769, 782; came to blind, etc., 770; never condemned without hearing, 779; Redeemer of all, 780; would not have the testimony of devils, 783; an obscurity, 785, 788; would not be slain without the forms of justice, 789; no man had more renown than, 791; absurd to take offence at the lowliness of, 792; came _in sanctificationem et in scandalum_, 794; said great things simply, 796; verified that He was the Messiah, 807; and miracles, 828 Jews, their religion must be differently regarded in the Bible and in their tradition, 600; and is wholly divine, 602; the carnal, 606, 607, 661, 746; true, and true Christians have the same religion, 609; their advantages, 619; their antiquity, 627; their sincerity, 629, 630; their long and miserable existence, 639; the, expressly made to witness to the Messiah, 640; earthly thoughts of the, 669; were the slaves of sin, 670; their zeal for the law, 700, 701; the devil troubled their zeal, 703; their captivity, 712; reprobation of the, 712; accustomed to great miracles, 745; the, but not all, reject Christ, 759; the, in slaying Him, have proved Him to be the Messiah, 760; their dilemma, 761 Job and Solomon, 174 John, St., the Baptist, 775 Joseph, 622, 697, 767 Josephus, 628, 786 Joshua, 626 Judgment, the, and the intellect, 4; of another easily prejudiced, 105 Just, the, act by faith, 504 Justice, the, of God, 233; relation of, to law and custom, 294, 325; and might, 298, 299; determined by custom, 309; is what is established, 312 King, the, surrounded by people to amuse him, 139; a, without amusement, is full of wretchedness, 142; why he inspires respect, 308; and tyrant, 310; on what his power is founded, 330 Knowledge, limitations of man's, 72; of ourselves impossible, apart from the mystery of the transmission of sin, 434; of God and of man's wretchedness found in Christ, 526 Koran, the, 596 Lackeys, afford a means of social distinction, 318, 319 Language, 27, 45, 49, 53, 54, 59, 648 Law, the, and nature, 519; the, and grace, 521; the, of the Jews, the oldest and most perfect, 618 Laws, the, are the only universal rules, 299; two, rule the Christian Republic, 484 Liancourt, the frog and the pike of, 341 Life, human, a perpetual illusion, 100; we desire to live an imaginary, 147; short duration of, 205; only, between us and heaven or hell, 213 Love, nature of self-, 100, 455; causes and effects of, 162, 163; nothing so opposed to justice and truth as self-, 492 Lusts, the three, 458, 460, 461 Machine, the, 246, 247; the arithmetical, 340 Macrobius, 178, 179 Magistrates, make a show to strike the imagination, 82 Mahomet, 590; without authority, 594; his own witness, 595; a false prophet, 596; is ridiculous, 597; difference between Christ and, 598, 599; religion of, 600 Man, full of wants, 36; misery of, without God, 60, 389; disproportion of, 72; a subject of error, 83; naturally credulous, 125; description of, 116; condition of, 127; disgraceful for, to yield to pleasure, 160; despises religion, 187; lacks heart, 196; his sensibility to trifles, 197; a thinking reed, 347, 348; neither angel, nor brute, 358; necessarily mad, 414; two views of the nature of, 415; does not know his rank, 427; a chimera, 434; the two vices of, 435; pursues wealth, 436; only happy in God, 438; does not act by reason, 439; unworthy of God, 510; is of two kinds, 533; holds an inward talk with himself, 535; without Christ, must be in vice and misery, 545; everything teaches him his condition, 556 Martial, epigrams of, 41 Master and servant, 530, 896 Materialism, on, 72, 75 Members, we are, of the whole, 474, 477, 482, 483 Memory, intuitive, 95; necessary for reason, 369 Merit, men and, 490 Messiah, necessary that there should be preceding prophecies about the, 570; the, according to the carnal Jews and carnal Christians, 606; the, has always been believed in, 615; and expected, 616; prophecies about the, 726, 728, 729; Herod believed to be the, 752 Mind, difference between the mathematical and the intuitive, 1; and body, 72, 792; natural for it to believe, 81; the, easily disturbed, 366 Miracles, and belief, 263; a test of doctrine, 802, 842, 845; definition of, 803; necessary, 805; Christ and 807, 810, 828, 833, 837, 838; Montaigne and, 812, 813; the reason people believe false, 816, 817; the, of the false prophets, 818; false, 822, 823; their use, 824; the foundation of religion, 825, 826, 850; no longer necessary, 831; the miracle of the Holy Thorn, 838, 855; the test in matters of doubt, 840; one mark of religion, 843 Misery, diversion alone consoles us for, and is the greatest, 171; proves man's greatness, 398; we have an instinct which raises us above, 411; induces despair, 525 Miton, 192, 448, 455 Montaigne, 18; criticism of, 62, 63, 64, 65; 220, 234, 325, 812, 813 Moses, 577, 592, 623, 628, 688, 689, 751, 802 Nature has made her truths independent of one another, 21; and theology, 29; is corrupt, 60; has set us in the centre, 70; only a first custom, 93; makes us unhappy in every state, 109; imitates herself, 110; diversifies, 120; always begins the same things again, 121; our, consists in motion, 129; and God, 229, 242, 243, 244; acts by progress, 355; the least movement affects all, 505; perfections and imperfections of, 579; an image of grace, 674 Nebuchadnezzar, 721 Novelty, power of the charms of, 82 Obscurity, the, of religion shows its truth, 564; without, man would not be sensible of corruption, 585 Opinion, the queen of the world, 311 Outward, the Church judges only by the, 904 Painting, vanity of, 134 Passion, makes us forget duty, 104;