Blaise Pascal

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

The more I see of men, the more I love my dog.

The present is never our end. The past and present are our means; the future alone is our end.

It is dangerous to show man too clearly how much he resembles the beast without at the same time showing him his greatness.

The Christian religion, by teaching men to love God, teaches them at the same time to love one another.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.

If a man is not a Christian, he will be a Jew, or a Turk, or a pagan.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

The only way to escape the corrupting influence of praise is to go on working.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after having put something before us to prevent us from seeing it.

Man is so great that his greatness is visible even in his knowing himself to be miserable.

The greatest pleasure is to vanquish without peril.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe themselves sinners, and the sinners who believe themselves righteous.

It is the nature of self-love and of this human 'I' to love itself only and to consider only itself.

The more we advance in knowledge, the more we discover our ignorance.

The true morality, the true philosophy, is that which makes us feel our dependence on God.

The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.

We are so presumptuous that we would wish to be known to all the world, even to those who shall come after us when we shall be no more.

The Christian's hope is to be with God, and his fear is to be without Him.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.