Kind 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 PASCALDo you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
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Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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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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The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.
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If 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.
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
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