Blaise Pascal
Quotes
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
Man is neither angel nor brute, and the unfortunate thing is that he who would act the angel acts the brute.
It is not certain that everything is uncertain.
Condition of man: inconstancy, weariness, unrest.
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and delighted; for we expected to see an author, and we find a man. Whereas those who have good taste, and who seeing a book expect to find a man, are quite surprised to find an author. Plus poetice quam humane locutus es. "You have spoken more poetically than humanly."
The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which feels God, and not Reason. This, then, is perfect faith: God felt in the heart.
The last thing one settles in writing a book is what one should put in first.
All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.
Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.
True morality makes fun of morality.
Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
Translation: Animals do not admire one another. A horse does not admire his companion.
