Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
BLAISE PASCALJustice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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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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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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!
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We like to be deceived.
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We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
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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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Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
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There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
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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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Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it’s possible, in everything.
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The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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