Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
Weitere Zitate von Blaise Pascal
Zum Autor"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."
"There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous."
"All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end."
"Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."
"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."
"Great and small suffer the same mishaps."