People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
-Blaise Pascal
People are usually more convinced by …
When we are in love we seem to ourselves…
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
-Blaise Pascal
Men despise religion. They hate it and a…
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
-Blaise Pascal
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they ac…
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
-Blaise Pascal
Faith is different from proof; the latte…
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a gift from God.
-Blaise Pascal
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by re…
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
-Blaise Pascal
Between us and heaven or hell there is o…
Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
-Blaise Pascal
All man’s miseries derive from not bein…
All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.
-Blaise Pascal
