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Often appears with: the nature and attributes of God · pleasure, pain, and the good life · justice as a virtue · inner vs outer life · happiness · god within and without
Usually: argument (1) · temptation (1) · detachment (1) · exhortation (1)
“Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.” Blaise Pascal, Pascal's Pensées · insight
Pascal contrasts interior self-renewal and external amusement as false paths, arguing that happiness is neither outside nor inside humans but is found in God, both within and beyond us.
*Philosophers.*--We are full of things which take us out of ourselves. Our instinct makes us feel that we must seek our happiness outside ourselves. Our passions impel us outside, even when no objects present themselves to excite them. External objects tempt us of themselves, and call to us, even when we are not thinking of them. And thus philosophers have said in vain, "Retire within yourselves, you will find your …