Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
BLAISE PASCALSilence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
BLAISE PASCALAll men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
BLAISE PASCALIf 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.
BLAISE PASCALDon’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
BLAISE PASCALPlurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
BLAISE PASCALAll of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
BLAISE PASCALThe entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
BLAISE PASCALIf a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
BLAISE PASCALHuman 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.
BLAISE PASCALMan is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
BLAISE PASCALIf I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
BLAISE PASCALJustice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
BLAISE PASCALGood deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
BLAISE PASCALAll the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
BLAISE PASCALNothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
BLAISE PASCALI rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn’t than live as if he doesn’t exist to find out He does.
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