Blaise Pascal Muse Quotations

To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction.

Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave

The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves; seek happiness in amusement." And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.