All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
BLAISE PASCALMan is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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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All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
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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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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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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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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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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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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond 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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If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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