The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.
Blaise PascalThe arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to attribute will to it, as to the animals.
Blaise PascalDistraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
Blaise PascalIs it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?
Blaise Pascal