Source: The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent
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Famous Blaise Pascal Quotes
“The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.”
Source: Pensées
“All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.”
Source: Pascal's Pensees
Source: Pensees
“A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.”
Source: Pensées
“Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.”
“What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy”
Source: Pensees: Thoughts on Religion
Source: Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works
Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works
Source: Pascal's Pensees
“All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.”
“(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.”
Source: Thoughts on Religion, and Other Curious Subjects: Written Originally in French
Source: Pascal's Pensees
“If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.”
Source: Pensees