Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
BLAISE PASCALHuman 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.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
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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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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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Imagination decides everything.
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Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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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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Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
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