Blaise Pascal

"We are nothing without God."

"The more a man knows, the less he speaks."

"Love seeks not its own but the good of the beloved."

"Diversion is the only remedy against wretchedness."

"Science progresses by asking the right questions."

"History teaches us what we have forgotten and what we must remember."

"The just man is not he who avoids sin, but he who struggles against it."

"In my beginning is my end, and in my end is my beginning."

"The power of genius is not in its conclusions but in its questions."

"True reform comes from within, not from without."

"We must accept our human condition with all its contradictions."

"The measure of man is not what he has but what he has done."

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."

"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone."

"The mind of this man is wandering, and his thoughts are not under control."

"Curiosity is only vanity. Most people want to know things only in order to talk about them."

"I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter."

"Kind words do not cost much, yet they accomplish much."

"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed."

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty."

"If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point."

"The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me."

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

"Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a camp follower, a cook, or a porter will brag and wish to have admirers."

"I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise."

"We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us seeing it."

"Small mind will discourse of a matter, but great and mature understanding will be silent."

"The heart has reasons that reason does not understand."

"Silence is the greatest persecuation; rarely will anyone deviate and enumerate their woes when they are suffering it."