When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.
Blaise PascalKind 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.
Blaise PascalPeople almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
Blaise PascalTag: prejudice subjectivity evidence beliefs proof persuasion attractivenessiveness
Little things comfort us because little things distress us.
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And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?
Blaise PascalIf they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse.
And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humoured these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.
Tag: politics insanity madness rulers plato aristotle kings emperors
We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.
Blaise PascalTag: secret
A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.
Blaise PascalFire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.
Blaise PascalThere is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition
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