Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
BLAISE PASCALThere are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
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Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
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Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
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We never love a person, but only qualities.
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
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Imagination decides everything.
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If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.
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Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
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Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.
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We like to be deceived.
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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn’t than live as if he doesn’t exist to find out He does.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
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