Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
BLAISE PASCALHuman beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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Love 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.
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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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Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
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Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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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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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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Faith is a gift of God.
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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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Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
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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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I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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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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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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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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