#r

He has a beauty to him that is not quite angelic, a quality that's both ethereal and dark. (Jonathan) ↗

— Helen Boswell

#angels-and-demons #guardian #jonathan-draper #beauty

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#duty #end #god #guide #him

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#established #falsehood #know #love #obscure

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#be true #despise #hate #may #men

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#circumference #everywhere #infinite #nature #nowhere

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#desire #even #fame #having #read

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#against #certainly #contrary #faith #see

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#affects #beyond #cautious #each #future

It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write. ↗

— Evan Davis

#fast #how #know #say #want

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#cannot #conceal #feeling #found #live