Two extremes: to exclude reason, to admit reason only.

Quote by Blaise Pascal

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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a...

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a...

Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids...

Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids...

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is...

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is...

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate,...

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate,...

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit...

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit...

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind...

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind...

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by...

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by...

Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches,...

Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches,...

If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four...

If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four...

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form...

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form...

For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does...

For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does...

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful,...

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful,...

Maybe he's only a little bit crazy, like painters, or composers, or some of those...

Maybe he's only a little bit crazy, like painters, or composers, or some of those...

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is...

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is...

The property of power is to protect.

The property of power is to protect.

Power is the ability to do good things for others.

Power is the ability to do good things for others.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and...

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and...