Blaise Pascal
I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short.
I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us.
We have to make America the best place in the world to do business.
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
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The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or…
Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
This world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel.
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
The devil made me do it the first time, and after that I did it on my own.
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
A stream cannot rise larger than its source.
A man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
Because of the level of my chess game, I was able - even against a weak opponent, such as my younger brothers or the dog - to get myself checkmated…
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses?
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts…
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
Don't confuse having a career with having a life.
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
As the circle of light increases, so does the circumference of darkness around it.
Great spirits have always encountered violent oppostion from mediocre minds.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for…
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
This country was built on rape, slavery, murder, degradation and affiliation with crime.
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.
The heights by great men reached and kept, were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience.
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying.
No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of…
The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.
Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his…
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
The more sensitive you are, the more likely you are to be brutalized, develop scabs and never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything because you always feel too much.
If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Games lubricate the body and the mind.
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.
Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't…
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
The fruit that can fall without shaking, indeed is too mellow for me.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual.
If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a country gentleman of all the ordinary…
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions.
That woman speaks eighteen languages and she can't say 'no' in any one of them.
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me; but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality.
Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.
I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
A President cannot always be popular.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living and the get rich…
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present,…
Women need a reason to have sex -- men just need a place.
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state…
You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.