There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
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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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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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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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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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of, We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.
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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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Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
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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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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
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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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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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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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All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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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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Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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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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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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We like to be deceived.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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