The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
Blaise PascalThere are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
Blaise PascalIn faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Blaise PascalPeople almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
Blaise PascalWhen a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours. ...such community of intellect that we have with him necessarily inclines the heart to love.
Blaise Pascal