The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. (Blaise Pascal)
When we encounter a natural style we are always surprised and delighted, for we thought to see an author and found a man. (Blaise Pascal)
It is not certain that everything is uncertain. (Blaise Pascal)
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart. (Blaise Pascal)
Console thyself, thou wouldst not seek Me, if thou hadst not found Me (Blaise Pascal)
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before. (Blaise Pascal)
The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences. (Blaise Pascal)
There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth. (Blaise Pascal)
Justice without strength is powerless strength without justice is tyrannical. (Blaise Pascal)
Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this. (Blaise Pascal)
Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it (Blaise Pascal)