It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason. – Blaise Pascal
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. – Blaise Pascal
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. – Blaise Pascal
There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him. – Blaise Pascal
There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald – all shining together in incredible union. Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painters, others the flame of burning sulphur or of fire quickened by oil. – Pliny, about the opal