Because Pascal's Too Good to Keep to Myself...

"There is no better proof of human vanity than to consider the causes and effects of love, because the whole universe can be changed by it. Cleopatra's nose."

Pascal...

"It is not man's nature always to go in one direction; it has its ups and downs. Fever makes us both shiver and sweat. The chill is as good an indication of how high the fever will go as the heat itself."

"Nothing strengthens the case for scepticism more than the fact that there are people who are not sceptics. If they all were, they would be wrong."

"One must know oneself. Even if that does not help in finding the truth, it at least helps in running one's life, and nothing is more proper."

Unembarrassed

John Updike had issues, but he did not "mock God with metaphor," which is more than can be said for many squeaky-clean writers. The world needs more men who are not "embarrassed by the miracle."

"For now we see in a mirror darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known."

HT: World