Blaise Pascal

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.

Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.

Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.

The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.

All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.

If you believe in God you are at no disadvantage in this life, and at considerable advantage in the next. If you do not believe, but find in the next that there was a next, you are most unfortunate!

One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.

The Christian's God does not merely consist of a God who is the Author of mathematical truths and the order of the elements. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of the Christians, is a God of love and consolation.

The war existing between the senses and reason.

The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.

The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.

Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.

The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.

Between us, and Hell or Heaven, there is only life between the two, which is the most fragile thing in the world._x000D_ _x000D_ Variant: Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.