I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.
I like The Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace.
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.
There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
Reason’s last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it.
God wishes to move the will rather than the mind. Perfect clarity would help the mind and harm the will.
Everything that is incomprehensible does not cease to exist.
There is nothing we can now call our own, for what we call so is the effect of art; crimes are made by decrees of the senate, or by the votes of the people; and as here-to-fore we are burdened by vices, so now we are oppressed by laws.