Blaise Pascal

It is dangerous to make a man believe that he is equal to the beasts, without showing him his greatness.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

The only way to be truly happy is to love what you do.

The only way to be truly free is to be truly yourself.

The only way to be truly happy is to be truly yourself.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.

We are born into a world where we are condemned to seek truth, but we are also condemned to error.

If you do not believe, you are condemned to believe in nothing.

The greater the mind, the greater the doubt.

Men despise religion; they hate it, and fear that it may be true.

We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.

Man is full of desires: he loves all that he can get.

Custom is a second nature that destroys the first.

The only good thing in the world is to know God.

To make a man a saint, it must be that he has been a sinner.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

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

The fact that a man who is a Christian is not a Jew is a proof that he is not a Jew.

What a chimera then is man! What a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy!

The only way to escape the corruption of the world is to take a bath in it.