Blaise Pascal

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it. ”

We never love a person, but only qualities. ”

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

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it. ”

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand. ”

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world. ”

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. ”

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones. ”

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. ”

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute. ”