No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and… - Blaise Pascal

They [men] have corrupted this [God's supernatural] order by making profane things what they should make of holy things, because in fact, we believe scarcely any thing except which pleases us.

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

A few rules include all that is necessary for the perfection of the definitions, the axioms, and the demonstrations, and consequently of the entire method of the geometrical proofs of the art of persuading.