PASCAL, BLAISE : Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor is the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
PASCAL, BLAISE : It is the heart which experiences God, and not the reason. This, then, is faith — God felt by the heart, not by the reason.
PASCAL, BLAISE : It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.
PASCAL, BLAISE : The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.
PASCAL, BLAISE : Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
PASCAL, BLAISE : Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
PASCAL, BLAISE : I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.
PASCAL, BLAISE : The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.
PASCAL, BLAISE : All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
