Life Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about life.

Paracelso

Paracelso

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Let it not be from another who can be master of oneself.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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If you do not act as you think, you will end up thinking as you act.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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I prefer to be wrong believing in a God who does not exist, than to be wrong not believing in a God who exists. Because if there is nothing afterwards, obviously I will never know it when I sink into eternal nothingness; but if there is something, if there is Someone, I will have to account for my attitude of rejection.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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Our nature is in motion. Absolute rest is death.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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Nature has perfections to show that it is an image of God, and imperfections to prove that it is only an image.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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Morality is the science par excellence; it is the art of living well and being happy.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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I have made this letter longer than usual because I have no time to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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Misfortune reveals to the soul lights that prosperity fails to perceive.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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What is man within nature? Nothing compared to the infinite. Everything compared to nothing. An intermediary between nothing and everything.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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It is easier to bear death without thinking about it than to bear the thought of death.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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Man is naturally credulous, incredulous; timid, reckless.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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Description of man: dependency, desire for independence, necessity.