Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
BLAISE PASCALHow hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
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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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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of, We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.
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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
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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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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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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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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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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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And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?
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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
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Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
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