Blaise Pascal

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point.
(Translation: The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.)
-Blaise Pascal, Pascal's Pensees

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.
-Blaise Pascal

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

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
-Blaise Pascal

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
-Blaise Pascal

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
-Blaise Pascal

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.
(Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)
-Blaise Pascal, Pascal's Pensees

When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.
-Blaise Pascal

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
-Blaise Pascal