Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them. – Blaise Pascal
Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. – Blaise Pascal
Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known. – Blaise Pascal
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. – Blaise Pascal
Before I do a play I say that I hope its going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. Its like a drug. – Isabelle Huppert
By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course. – Henry Mitchell, The Essential Earthman, 1981