Blaise Pascal

"Let everyone acknowledge that a few men are born poets and the rest are made."

"Man's sensitivity to small matters and insensitivity to great ones indicates a strange inversion of values."

"Accuse not nature, she hath done her part; do thou but thine."

"We are dying, but we do not notice it."

"Mathematics is the language in which God wrote the universe."

"The heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care."

"It is dangerous to make man see too clearly his equality with the beasts without showing him his greatness."

"Custom is our nature."

"The only real wisdom is in knowing that you know nothing."

"The will is never forced."

"Without the constant presence of the Lord, we tend to give way to despair."

"We cannot know ourselves unless we know something about God."

"The trouble with life is that it is so daily."

"Vanity is the seasoning that makes all his other ingredient palatable."

"The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason."

"If you do not make a choice, you will still have made a choice."

"The heart ceases to beat when it finds what it was looking for."

"Wars and feuds with our enemy arise because we do not know their motives."

"Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events."

"When he is young, man vows to himself that he will live fully; but by the time he has the means he has no longer the courage."

"There is a certain justice in allowing each of these men to be right."

"Man is neither angel nor beast, and unhappily whoever wants to act the angel acts the beast."

"The heart as a thinking organ is often superior to the mind."

"Without the life and wisdom of Pascal, the world would be a much poorer place."

"We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything."

"Patience is not passive acceptance. It is a warrior's virtue."

"The reason we don't enjoy our work is because we don't know how to enjoy."

"True eloquence makes light of eloquence."

"The heart has reasons that reason cannot fathom."

"To have a friend, one must close one eye. To keep him, two."