We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
Blaise Pascal

We never love a person, but only qualities.
Blaise Pascal

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.
Blaise Pascal

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
Blaise Pascal

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
Blaise Pascal

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
Blaise Pascal

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
Blaise Pascal

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
Blaise Pascal

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
Blaise Pascal

You always admire what you really don't understand.
Blaise Pascal