Blaise Pascal

“Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.”

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

“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”

“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”

“The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.”

“Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them.”

“Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.”

“The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.”

“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.”

“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.”

“It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.”

“Faith is different from proof the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.”

“Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.”

“Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.”

“Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.”

“If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.”

“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”

“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?”

“Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.”

“If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!”

“We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.”

“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.”

“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”

“We are all something, but none of us are everything.”