Blaise Pascal

Quotes

• “Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still st...”
• “Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. ...”
• “Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”
• “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.”
• “Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.”
• “I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.”
• “When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.”
• “Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.”
• “It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.”
• “The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
• “Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.”
• “To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.”
• “Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.”