There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
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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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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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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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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Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
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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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Imagination decides everything.
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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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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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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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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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