Blaise Pascal
“To ridicule philosophy is truly to philosophize.”
“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who do not.”
“We do not rest satisfied with the present; we anticipate the future as too slow in coming, and we recall the past to stop its rapid flight.”
“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.”
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
“We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.”
“If Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.”
“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me.”
“Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.”
“I have made this letter longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter.”
“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.”
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”