Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
BLAISE PASCALGreat and small suffer the same mishaps.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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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We never love a person, but only qualities.
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The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
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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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Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?
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The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
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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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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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