It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.
Blaise PascalThe greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
Blaise PascalMen never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Blaise PascalWe sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.
Blaise PascalThere are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the diverse lovable parts of that which it loves.
Blaise Pascal