Quotes
Quotes - Pascal
I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.
Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.
We like to be deceived.
The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force.
The heart has its reasons that reason does not know. -Pascal.
Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.
man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
A jester, a bad character. [Fr., Diseur de bon mots, mauvais caractere.]
The last thing one knows is what to put first.
Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect.
It is not good to have too much liberty. It is not good to have all one wants.
We conceal it from ourselves in vain-- we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.
The heart has its reasons which the mind cannot comprehend.
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.
It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.
