Famous quotes by Philosophers

"There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners, and the sinners who think they are righteous"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"The gospel to me is simply irresistible"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

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

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"Men blaspheme what they do not know"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

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

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"If you seek truth, you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth, you will become invincible"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these, for, to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother"

Epictetus, Philosopher

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