Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Blaise Pascal
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
Blaise Pascal
Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
Blaise Pascal
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Blaise Pascal
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
Blaise Pascal
To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
Blaise Pascal
It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.
Blaise Pascal
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
Blaise Pascal
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.
Blaise Pascal
Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only his image.
Blaise Pascal
Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.
Blaise Pascal
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
Blaise Pascal
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Blaise Pascal
Quotable Quotes
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
Blaise Pascal
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.