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From Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
- For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and…
- I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate on such subjects…
- All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.
- All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
- The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted;…
- We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by…
- The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from age to age;…
- Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a glance and are…
- The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.
- No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can…
- It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I…
- Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of Nature; and from…
- We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from…
- All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.
- We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.
- Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
- Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from…
- Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through…
- Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.
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