Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so establi... - Blaise Pascal
"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."
"I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter."
"To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize."
"Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."
"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."