Blaise Pascal
45 quotations
To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
We must learn our limits. We are all something but none of us are everything.
The property of power is to protect.
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
Our nature consist in motion; complete rest is death.
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
The war existing between the senses and reason.
Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.