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.
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 PASCALAll the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
BLAISE PASCALIf 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.
BLAISE PASCALImagination decides everything.
BLAISE PASCALIf I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
BLAISE PASCALTruth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
BLAISE PASCALAll our dignity lies in our thoughts.
BLAISE PASCALNothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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 PASCALWhen intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
BLAISE PASCALAll men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
BLAISE PASCALAnd 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?
BLAISE PASCALMen never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
BLAISE PASCALPlurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
BLAISE PASCALFaith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
BLAISE PASCALThe supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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