Blaise Pascal

Man is so great that his greatness even manifests itself in knowing himself to be miserable.

It is an error to suppose that there is any other good than God.

The true good is to be found in God alone.

Our nature is corrupted, and we are full of pride and self-love.

The proper study of mankind is man.

The knowledge of man's misery without God is the knowledge of two things: his misery and his greatness.

The more I see of the world, the more I am disgusted with it.

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

We are all born with a thirst for happiness, but we are all born with a thirst for something we cannot find on earth.

We are so presumptuous that we would like to be known by all the world, and even by people who will come after us when we are no more.

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have discovered ourselves than by those found by others.

What is self? A man is a body and a mind. What is the body? A part of the mind. What is the mind? A part of God.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

To ridicule philosophy is truly to philosophize.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

Man is full of desires: he loves all that he can obtain, but he does not know how to obtain it.

Custom is a second nature, which destroys the first.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

We are so unhappy that we can only be happy by diversion.

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.