Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.
Blaise PascalI have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Blaise PascalDesire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
Blaise PascalOne-half of life is admitted by us to be passed in sleep, in which, however, it may appear otherwise, we have no perception of truth, and all our feelings are delusions; who knows but the other half of life, in which we think we are awake, is a sleep also, but in some respects different from the other, and from which we wake when we, as we call it, sleep. As a man dreams often that he is dreaming, crowding one dreamy delusion on another.
Blaise Pascal