Blaise Pascal Quotes
Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
Blaise Pascal
Quotes to Explore
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I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.
A.M. Homes
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I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.
Tom Holt
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Finding out what you’re good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect.
Joanne Rowling
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In language that's lyrical and haunting, Cheryl Strayed writes about bliss and loss, about the kind of grace that startles and transforms us in ordinary moments.
Ursula Hegi
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I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.
Marlo Thomas
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Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone.
Bahá'u'lláh
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.
Virginia Woolf
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In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
Euripides
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Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Here's three on's are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.
William Shakespeare
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The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
Blaise Pascal
