Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
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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Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
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All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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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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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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Love 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.
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Faith is a gift of God.
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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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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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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
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