Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
BLAISE PASCALWisdom leads us back to childhood.
BLAISE PASCALMankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
BLAISE PASCALIf you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
BLAISE PASCALIn difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
BLAISE PASCALIf you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it’s possible, in everything.
BLAISE PASCALAll the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
BLAISE PASCALKind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men’s souls, and a beautiful image it is.
BLAISE PASCALAll men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
BLAISE PASCALIn faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
BLAISE PASCALDistraction 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.
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 PASCALWhat a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
BLAISE PASCALPlurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
BLAISE PASCALSilence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
BLAISE PASCALHaving been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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