Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.
Blaise PascalEducation produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.
Blaise PascalTo make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.
Blaise PascalOne must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.
Blaise PascalWhen I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there … now instead of then.
Blaise Pascal