Blaise Pascal

The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of read more

The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go.
[Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins read more

Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go.
[Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins qui marchant et qui portent
ou l'on veut aller.]

Men never do evil so fully and so happily as when they do it for conscience's sake.

Men never do evil so fully and so happily as when they do it for conscience's sake.

Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force.

Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force.