Nicanor Parra
View AuthorWell, and now who will free us from our liberators?
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorThe strings that tie the respect of one for another are, in general, strings of necessity.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorReason works slowly, and with so many considerations, on so many principles, that it often falls asleep or gets lost at any moment. Passion works in an instant.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorThe greatness of a man lies in knowing how to recognize his own smallness.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorTwo excesses: excluding reason, admitting nothing but reason.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorMorality is the science par excellence; it is the art of living well and being happy.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorIt is undoubtedly a bad thing to be full of defects; but it is an even greater evil to be full of them and not want to acknowledge it, because that is adding the evil of voluntary illusion.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorReason is very weak unless it comes to understand that there are many things that surpass it.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorFor those who only desire to see, there is enough light; but for those with an opposite disposition, there is always enough darkness.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorIt's not good to be too free. It's not good to have everything one wants.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorThey say that habit is a second nature. Who knows, however, if nature is not first a habit.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorThe first effect of love is to inspire great respect; one feels veneration for the beloved.