Blaise Pascal

“The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.”

“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”

“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.”

“Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.”

“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.”

“We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.”

“If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He is.”

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

“We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.”

“Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.”

“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.”

“I have made this letter longer than usual because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”

“Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.”

“Little things console us because little things afflict us.”

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”

“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think themselves sinners and the sinners who think themselves righteous.”

“Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.”

“Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.”

“Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.”