Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal processโโwhich is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake.
Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.
A writerโs promise is like a tigerโs smile
It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.
There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.
Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.