We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
BLAISE PASCALIt’s not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It’s those who write the songs.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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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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Imagination decides everything.
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Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
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It’s not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It’s those who write the songs.
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Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.
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We like to be deceived.
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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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Human 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.
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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
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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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Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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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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How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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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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Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
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