23 quotes
"The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing."
- Blaise Pascal
Love
""The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.""
- Blaise Pascal
Love
"The heart has its reason of which reason knows nothing."
- Blaise Pascal
Love
"The heart has reasons which reason knows not."
- Blaise Pascal
Love
"Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason."
- Blaise Pascal
Balance
"Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much."
- Blaise Pascal
Compassion
"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."
- Blaise Pascal
Self-awareness
"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
Self-awareness
"In faith, there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t."
- Blaise Pascal
Faith
"Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair."
- Blaise Pascal
Faith
"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't."
- Blaise Pascal
Faith
"Inside every man is a God-shaped vacuum. - Blaise Pascal"
- Blaise Pascal
Faith
"There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man without God, or the strength of man with God."
- Blaise Pascal
Faith
"Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself."
- Blaise Pascal
Belief in Self
"Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Whenever you long for your former lover, think of what you really wanted. The one recollection will suffice you—you want nothing from him but to love again."
- Blaise Pascal
Healing
"Chess is the gymnasium of the mind."
- Blaise Pascal
Education
"Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."
- Blaise Pascal
Education
"The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me."
- Blaise Pascal
Facing Fears
"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."
- Blaise Pascal
Philosophy
"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the centre is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."
- Blaise Pascal
Philosophy
"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."
- Blaise Pascal
Nature
"I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."
- Blaise Pascal
Efficiency
"I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter."
- Blaise Pascal
Efficiency