Blaise Pascal

“That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.”

“Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.”

“We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.”

“If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.”

“Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.”

“Kind words produce their images on men's souls.”

“Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.”

“Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.”

“If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.”

“Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.”

“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.", 1657)”

“The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.”

“To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”

“Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.”

“When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.”

“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”

“You always admire what you really don't understand.”

“Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.”

“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”

“There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature... and the thing which pleases us.”