Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
BLAISE PASCALHow hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
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If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
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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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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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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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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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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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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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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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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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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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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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Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
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We like to be deceived.
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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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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Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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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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