pascal's picks

"The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room."

"Reason's last step is a recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it."

"We run carelessly to the precipice, after we put something before us to prevent us from seeing it."

"Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism."

"Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will."

"It is not certain that everything is uncertain."

"This letter would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter."