There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
Weitere Zitate von Blaise Pascal
Zum Autor"People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others."
"Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known."
"I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."
"What a Chimera is man! What a novelty, a monster, a chaos, a contradiction, a prodigy! Judge of all things, an imbecile worm; depository of truth, and sewer of error and doubt; the glory and refuse of the universe."
"All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end."
"Great and small suffer the same mishaps."