Истинското красноречие се смее над превзетостта, истинската нравественост се смее над нравоучението. - Blaise Pascal

But Pascal is one of those writers who will be and who must be studied afresh by men in every generation. It is not he who changes, but we who change. It is not our knowledge of him that increases, but our world that alters and our attitudes towards it.

I feel that it is possible that I might never have existed, for my self consists in thought; therefore I who think would never have been if my mother had been killed before I had come to life; therefore I am not a necessary being. I am not eternal or infinite either…

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.