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

“To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.”

“Wisdom leads us back to childhood.”

“Law, without force, is impotent.”

“Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.”

“Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.”

“If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true; this I have learnt after suffering all my life; all else is mere moonshine.”

“There is no doubt that our last state will be worse than our first, if we surrender our reason into somebody's keeping.”

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”

“Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.”