Blaise Pascal

"I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter."

"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed."

"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."

"To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize."

"Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen."

"Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen."

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows not."

"Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed."

"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."

"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."

"It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth."

"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."

"When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before."

"Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."

"Love has reasons which reason cannot understand."

"To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man."