The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
BLAISE PASCALThe entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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 PASCALWisdom leads us back to childhood.
BLAISE PASCALMan is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
BLAISE PASCALOnce your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
BLAISE PASCALHappiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
BLAISE PASCALFaith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
BLAISE PASCALDo you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
BLAISE PASCALFaith is a gift of God.
BLAISE PASCALAll men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
BLAISE PASCALWe must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
BLAISE PASCALAll of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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.
BLAISE PASCALIf 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.
BLAISE PASCALLove knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
BLAISE PASCALWhen intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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