The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. – Blaise Pascal
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. – 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
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. – Blaise Pascal