"We know the truth not only through..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“I would inquire of reasonable persons whether this principle: Matter is naturally wholly incapable of thought, and this other: I think, therefore I am, are in fact the same in the mind ofDescartes, and in that of St. Augustine, who said the same thing twelve hundred years before.”

“As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and that reason is that we know well what is the object of mathematics, and that it consists in proofs, and what is the object of medicine, and that it consists in healing. But we do not know in what grace consists, which is the object of poetry.”

“We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.”

“The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.”

“We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth-- 'Tis then we get the right good from a book.”

“Every light is not the sun.”

“And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.”

“Great minds think for themselves.”

“Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.”