Blaise Pascal

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher. ”

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. ”

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth. ”

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever. ”

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world. ”

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. ”

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. ”

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice. ”

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established. ”

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. ”