Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
BLAISE PASCALDistraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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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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I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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One-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.
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Imagination decides everything.
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Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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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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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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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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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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