Blaise Pascal

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.

Piety is different from superstition.

Man is neither angel nor beast, and the misfortune is that he who would act the angel acts the beast.

It is the fight itself that is the important thing.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be miserable.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

We are generally more persuaded by the reasons we have ourselves discovered than by those given to us by others.

Men despise religion; they hate it, and fear it is true.

If we submit everything to reason, our religion will have nothing mysterious or supernatural.

To make a man a saint, it must be that grace is infused, and that he is not merely a man of good morals.

The greater the mind, the more it is capable of profound thoughts.

Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish to know merely to talk.

The only good thing in this world is to be able to live in peace.

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

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.

The true morality, the true wisdom, is to live in peace and quiet, without any ambition, without any desire.

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

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

We are born into the world with a great desire to be happy, and we are always seeking for happiness.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.