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| Blaise Pascal
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone. Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves. Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. Faith declares what the senses do not see, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them, not contrary to them. Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short. Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, happiness, which is everything in the world. Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life. We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything. We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person. |
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