Blaise Pascal

The proper study of mankind is man.

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

The only way to be happy is to be useful.

Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.

The world is full of contradictions.

The more I see, the more I believe.

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

The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.

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

Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

The greater the mind, the more it sees the need for faith.

We are so presumptuous that we would like to be known to all the world, even to those who will come after we are gone.

People are never so much the fools as when they are trying to be witty.

The only good thing in the world is to be born well, and the only bad thing is to be born ill.

We do not choose to be born, we do not choose to die, we do not choose to love. We are born, we die, we love.

We are never at home, but always beyond.

Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently one wishes to know for the sole purpose of talking about it.

The greater the intelligence, the greater the humility.

Man is but a disguised animal, and his passions are his masters.

The world is full of things that are not true, and yet we believe them.