Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
BLAISE PASCALWe 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.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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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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How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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It’s not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It’s those who write the songs.
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I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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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.
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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.
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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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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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