There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.
Blaise PascalWe never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.
Blaise PascalI have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Blaise PascalWe should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.
Blaise PascalFew friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
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