All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
BLAISE PASCALAll the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
BLAISE PASCALKind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
BLAISE PASCALI 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.
BLAISE PASCALFear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
BLAISE PASCALWe are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
BLAISE PASCALMan is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
BLAISE PASCALIf I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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 PASCALCuriosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
BLAISE PASCALLord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!
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 PASCALFaith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
BLAISE PASCALImagination decides everything.
BLAISE PASCALDistraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
BLAISE PASCALFaith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
BLAISE PASCALSilence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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