Blaise Pascal Quotes

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.

Now' is the watchword of the wise.

The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.

One sits down first; one thinks afterwards.

Measure me while I live - after it will be too late.

Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt.'

Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.

Today is the only time we can possibly live.

Living requires but little life; doing requires much.

To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.

There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

Most of what we say and do is unnecessary: remove the superfluity, and you will have more time and less bother. So in every case one should prompt oneself: 'Is this, or is it not, something necessary?' And the removal of the unnecessary should apply not only to actions but to thoughts also: then no redundant actions either will follow.

You breathe in and out; you breathe in and you breathe out, and you live one moment into the next moment, and then time goes by, and you find you're able to put one foot in front of the other.

A mind that practices love cannot love.

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

I Should Just Stop Tweeting, The Human Consciousness Must Raise Before I Speak My Juvenile Philosophy.

If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.

Light is time thinking about itself.

We are never aware of the present; each instant of living becomes perceptible only when it is past, so that in a sense we do not live at all, but only remember living.

You grow, learn, and the more I can sit in silence and be comfortable with myself, the more I can make noise, as ironic and Zen Buddhist and satanic as it sounds!

I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity Nor had I time to love: but since Some industry must be, The little toil of love, I thought, Was large enough for me.

When you are with everyone but me, you're with no one. When you are with no one but me, you're with everyone. Instead of being so bound up with everyone, be everyone. When you become that many, you're nothing. Empty.

We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.