One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.
BLAISE PASCALAll men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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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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We never love a person, but only qualities.
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What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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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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I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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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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Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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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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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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