If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
BLAISE PASCALSilence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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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If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
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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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If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it’s possible, in everything.
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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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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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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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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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Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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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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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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