People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
Blaise PascalThat queen, of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not always deceive. She would be the infallible rule of truth if she were the infallible rule of falsehood; but being only most frequently in error, she gives no evidence of her real quality, for she marks with the same character both that which is true and that which is false.
Blaise PascalDo little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.
Blaise PascalFire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.
Blaise Pascal