Let each one examine his thoughts, and he will find them all occupied with the past and the future. We scarcely ever think of the present; and if we … - Blaise Pascal

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus, we never actually live, but hope to live.

I set it down as a fact that if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

Put the world’s greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be: if there is a precipice below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.

These philosophers of the world place contrarieties in the same subject; for the one attributed greatness to nature and the other weakness to this same nature, which could not subsist; whilst faith teaches us to place them in different subjects: all that is infirm belonging to nature, all that is powerful belonging to grace. Such is the marvelous and novel union which God alone could teach, and which he alone could make, and which is only a type and an effect of the ineffable union of two natures in the single person of a Man-God.