Blaise Pascal

Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.
― Blaise Pascal

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.
― Blaise Pascal

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.
― Blaise Pascal