Blaise Pascal

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Blaise Pascal

Kind words produce their images on men’s souls.

Blaise Pascal

Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal

Man is neither angel nor brute, and the unfortunate thing is that he who would act the angel acts the brute.

Blaise Pascal

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

Blaise Pascal

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

Blaise Pascal

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.

Blaise Pascal

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

Blaise Pascal