25 result(s) for Blaise Pascal Quotes About Being Alone.
"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."
"I have discovered that 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 seeing it."
"Man is obviously made to think. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought."
"The present is never our goal. The past and present are our means; the future alone is our goal. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so."
"People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive."
"To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher."
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"We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others."
"It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants."
"The only shame is to have none."
"When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good if there is a common error that determines the mind. That keeps men, for example, from tearing up the world with disputes."
"Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish to know only to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling."
"Custom is our nature. Anyone who is used to faith believes it cannot be disproved, and anyone who is used to doubting disbelieves everything."
"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical."
"Two extremes: to exclude reason, to admit only reason."
"Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary; great minds with the commonplace."
"Nature imitates art."
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."
"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."
"There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous."
"There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus Christ."
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"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
"On the contrary, I know that whoever is attached to worldly things will be unable to fly towards heavenly things."
"A trifle consoles us, because a trifle distresses us."
