The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
BLAISE PASCALFear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
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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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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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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 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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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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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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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
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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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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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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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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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