Blaise Pascal: Trending quotes (page 6)

“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?”

“Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.”

“In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.”

“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”

“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.”

“The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.”

“Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.”

“Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.”

“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?”

“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.”

“Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.”

“The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.”

“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”

“Little things comfort us because little things distress us.”

“Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.”

“Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.”

“To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.”

“Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.”

“It is a natural illness of man to think that he possesses the truth directly…”