We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.
Tag: Blaise Pascal
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
The Knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
I have made this letter long because i have not the time to make it shorter.
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more