The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me.
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Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.
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Translation: True morality makes fun of morality.
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If we look at our work immediately after completing it, we are still too involved; if too long afterwards, we cannot pick up the thread again. (381)
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To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
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Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it. (535)
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Translation: Not being able to fortify justice, they justified force.
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Translation: The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which experiences God, and not the reason. This, then, is faith: God felt by the heart, not by the reason.
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What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial.
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What amazes me the most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.
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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.
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Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you - will quiet your proudly critical intellect. (233)
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The grandeur of man is great in that he knows himself to be miserable.
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Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason. (272)
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Make religion attractive, make good men wish it were true, and then show that it is. Worthy of reverence because it really understands human nature. Attractive because it promises true good. (187)
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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. (72)
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Translation: All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.
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We would never travel on the sea if we had no hope of telling about it later... We lose our lives with joy provided people talk about it... Even philosophers wish for admirers.
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Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.
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It is a funny sort of justice whose limits are marked by a river; true on this side of the Pyrenees, false on the other. (294)
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Les hommes se gouvernent plus par caprice que par raison.
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One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person. (336)
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The wisest reason takes as her own principles those which the imagination of man has everywhere rashly introduced.
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Translation: Man is a reed, the weakest of nature, but he is a thinking reed.
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Translation: The nose of Cleopatra, if it had been shorter, would have changed all the face of the earth.
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Translation: Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.
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An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just. (82)
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Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is. (309)
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If God does not exist, one will lose nothing by believing in him, while if he does exist, one will lose everything by not believing.
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Translation: If [Man] exalt himself, I humble him, If he humble himself, I exalt him; And [I] always contradict him, Until he understands That he is an incomprehensible monster.
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People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
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Translation: God is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and circumference is nowhere.
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All men naturally hate one another; there could not be four friends in the world. (101)
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I cannot imagine a man without thought; he would be a stone or an animal. (339)
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Go to confession and communion; you will find it a relief and a strengthening. (82)
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