Blaise Pascal Quotes
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don`t.
You always admire what you really don`t understand.
The only shame is to have none
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere
Man`s greatness lies in his power of thought.
A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.
The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never live but we hope to live; and always hoping to be happy, it is inevitable that we will never be so.
The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences.
The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
