Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
BLAISE PASCALThere is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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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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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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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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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
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Human 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.
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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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