The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.
Blaise PascalThe mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.
Blaise PascalDeath itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.
Blaise PascalReason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.
Blaise PascalIf we dreamed the same thing every night, it would affect us much as the objects we see every day. And if a common workman were sure to dream every night for twelve hours that he was a king, I believe he would be almost as happy as a king who should dream every night for twelve hours on end that he was a common workman.
Blaise Pascal