Blaise Pascal

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason. ”

Law, without force, is impotent. ”

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. ”

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. ”

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. ”

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. ”

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

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. ”

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him. ”

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it. ”