Blaise Pascal

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#behind #each #few #friend #friendships

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#arms #futile #good #may #our

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#be true #despise #hate #may #men

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

— Blaise Pascal

#circumference #everywhere #infinite #nature #nowhere

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#falsity #lack #nor #sign #truth

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#consequence #feeling #great #immortality #indifferent

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#evil #fault #faults #full #further

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#experience #instinct #men #nature #things

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#different #different sides #eyes #find #only

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#consists #death #motion #nature #our