“I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.”
— Blaise Pascal“To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.”
— Blaise Pascal“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.”
— Blaise Pascal“Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.”
— Blaise PascalWe sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
— Blaise Pascal