When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who are rushing on, by acting as a fixed point.
Blaise PascalThe last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.
Blaise PascalJustice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.
Blaise PascalThe imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.
Blaise PascalMan is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will say. But I have no concern for mathematics; he would take me for a proposition. "That one is a good soldier." He would take me for a besieged town. I need, that is to say, a decent man who can accommodate himself to all my desires in a general sort of way.
Blaise Pascal