To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
20+ Best Blaise Pascal Quotes & Wishes
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Man's greatness lies in his capacity to recognize his own wretchedness.
We never live, but we hope to live.
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and delighted; for we expected to see an author, and we find a man.
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners, and the sinners who think they are righteous.
Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we want to know something only in order to talk about it.
The last act is bloody, however fine the rest of the play may be.
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries, and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.
If Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the whole face of the world would have changed.
Men are so necessarily mad that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.