The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.Blaise Pascal
Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.Blaise Pascal
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.Blaise Pascal
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.Blaise Pascal
Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.Blaise Pascal
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.Blaise Pascal
The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.Blaise Pascal
Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.Blaise Pascal
