"We conceal it from ourselves in vain..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal
We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.
More by Blaise Pascal
“Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.”
“The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.”
“Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.”
More on Love
“An urgent missive sent to Josephine Home in three days. Don't wash.”
“Love does not analyze its object.”
“When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you. Your mind floods with oxygen. Your heart becomes a room with wide-open windows. You laugh hard every day.”
More on Human Nature
“Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, "I may say without vanity," but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed.”
“My mind changes often ... People who have no mind can easily be steadfast and firm, but when a man is loaded down to the guards with it, as I am, every heavy sea of foreboding or inclination, maybe of indolence, shifts the cargo.”
“People fear what they do not understand.”