Blaise Pascal

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Kindness • Communication

We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart.

Knowledge • Reason • Truth

If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

Communication • Friendship • Gossip

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this: man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.

Meditation • Philosophy • Psychology

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.

Communication • Improvement • Kindness

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Devotion • Faith • Love

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

Divine • Human • Knowledge

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Faith • Truth

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

Infinity • Nature • Perception

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Improvement • Motivational • Philosophy

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Knowledge • Love • Time

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

Atheism • Beliefs • Limits

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

God • Happiness • Spirituality

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Discovery • Knowledge • Philosophy

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Behavior • Habits • Human

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Beliefs • Faith • Philosophy

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Movement • Nature

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

Duty • Faith • Providence

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Love • Reason • Understanding

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

Beliefs • Faith • Perception