The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.
BLAISE PASCALThe Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.
BLAISE PASCALThere are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
BLAISE PASCALMan is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
BLAISE PASCALOne-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.
BLAISE PASCALGreat and small suffer the same mishaps.
BLAISE PASCALMan’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
BLAISE PASCALMost of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
BLAISE PASCALNothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
BLAISE PASCALThe entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
BLAISE PASCALWhen intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
BLAISE PASCALWe never love a person, but only qualities.
BLAISE PASCALPlurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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 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 PASCALThe heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of, We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.
BLAISE PASCALAll men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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