Blaise Pascal

All which tends not to the sole end is the type of it. For since there is only one end, all which does not lead to it in express terms is figurative.

The clearness in divine things requires us to revere the obscurities in them.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the vain search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

"The Messiah," said they, "abideth for ever, and this man says that he shall die." Therefore they believed Him neither mortal nor eternal; they only sought in Him for a carnal greatness.

Particular Types.—A double law, double tables of the law, a double temple, a double captivity.

Augustine, De civitate Dei, v. 10. This rule is general. God can do everything, except those things, which if He could do, He would not be almighty, as dying, being deceived, lying, &c.

...logicians. It seems that their license must be without any limits or barriers, since they have broken through so many that are so just and sacred.

Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.

The type has been made according to the truth, and the truth has been recognized according to the type.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be miserable. A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is then being miserable to know oneself to be miserable; but it is also being great to know that one is miserable.

All the principles of skeptics, stoics, atheists, etc., are true. But their conclusions are false, because the opposite principles are also true.