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.
BLAISE PASCALWhen intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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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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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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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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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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Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men’s souls, and a beautiful image it is.
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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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All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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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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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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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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