Pascal Quotes
The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.
The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.
Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.
The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.
This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing that is not a matter of doubt and disquiet.
The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.
The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.
E? loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like a tyrant or king.
Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.
We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.
Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.
Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing.
Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.
It's so trendy, almost bleeding to death. All the cool girls are doing it.
Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years.
She needed to get out of there. Her brains, thankfully, were still safely in her skull, but her emotions were splattered on the pavement.
I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you’re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet.
When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows what it means, so now I use it all the time.
As pathetic as it was, she'd rather hold on to the possibility of something perfect than be hit with the reality of nothing much.
You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.
Ive always really been into science, and in the last five years Ive gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.
Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!
Brands should think of themselves not as storytellers but storybuilders. We plant seeds of content and let our community build on it.
I always wanted to make movies no matter what. It's true. No matter how I was getting to do it, that's what I wanted to do.
You can't run a company simply by the numbers. So if you're going to bet on someone, you bet on someone you want to be in business with for a long time.
Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.
Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.