Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
BLAISE PASCALFear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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 more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
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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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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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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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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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The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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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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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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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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I 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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In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
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We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.
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Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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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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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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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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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
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