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 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.
BLAISE PASCALCuriosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
BLAISE PASCALLove knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
BLAISE PASCALThe entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
BLAISE PASCALTruth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
BLAISE PASCALWe never love a person, but only qualities.
BLAISE PASCALWe 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.
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 more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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 PASCALWhat a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
BLAISE PASCALGood deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
BLAISE PASCALIt is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
BLAISE PASCALWe must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
BLAISE PASCALThere 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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