The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.
Blaise PascalCuriosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
Blaise PascalAll the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
Blaise PascalWhen a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours. ...such community of intellect that we have with him necessarily inclines the heart to love.
Blaise Pascal