Mans true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good. – Blaise Pascal
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. – Blaise Pascal
Mans true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good. – Blaise Pascal
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. – Blaise Pascal
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all. – Blaise Pascal
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. – Blaise Pascal
Ah, if he could have plunged up into the clouds, so as to sweep thereon through the undulating heavens over the boundless earth!—ah, if he could have floated with the flower-fragrance over the flowers,—could have streamed with the wind over the summits, through the woods! – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,