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.
BLAISE PASCALGreat and small suffer the same mishaps.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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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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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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We like to be deceived.
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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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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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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
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If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
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I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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Faith is a gift of God.
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The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.
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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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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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