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Blaise Pascal Quotes

«The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.»
«Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.»
«Those we call the ancients were really new in everything»
«We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.»
«We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by reasons which have occurred to others»
«Console thyself, thou wouldst not seek Me, if thou hadst not found Me»
«Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists»
«The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.»
«Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.»
«We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.»