“Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.”

—Blaise Pascal.

“Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness.”

—Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (19 Jun 1623-1662).

“If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.” 

—Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (19 Jun 1623-1662). 

“Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.”

—Blaise Pascal. 

“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”
—Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662).

“People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.”

—Blaise Pascal. 

“The virtue of a person is measured not by his outstanding efforts, but by his everyday behavior.” -Blaise Pascal.

“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.” 

—Blaise Pascal. 

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

—Blaise Pascal.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (19 Jun 1623-1662).

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“If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! ”
—Blaise Pascal.

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