Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. – Blaise Pascal
The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. – Blaise Pascal
If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! – Blaise Pascal
It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed. – Blaise Pascal