Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with.
Blaise PascalJesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
Blaise PascalThe two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.
Blaise PascalThere is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition
Blaise Pascal