All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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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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Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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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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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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Imagination decides everything.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of, We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.
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I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn’t than live as if he doesn’t exist to find out He does.
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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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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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Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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