~ Blaise Pascal Quotes

[MysteRy]

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end.

[MysteRy]

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

[MysteRy]

All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end.

[MysteRy]

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

[MysteRy]

The majority is the best way because it is visible and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

[MysteRy]

We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves; we desire to live an imaginary life in the minds of others and for this purpose we endeavor to shine.

[MysteRy]

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?

[MysteRy]

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past present and future state and at others whom it affects and see the relation of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest without passion without business without entertainment without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty insufficient dependent ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom gloom sorrow chagrin resentment and despair.