Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
BLAISE PASCALMan’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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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 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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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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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
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If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
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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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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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We like to be deceived.
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The 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.
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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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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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