When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Sleep, you say, is the image of death; for my part I say that it is rather the image of life. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“I feel that it is possible that I might never have existed, for my self consists in thought; therefore I who think… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“We know the existence of the infinite without knowing its nature, because it too has extension but unlike us no limits. But… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Between us, and Hell or Heaven, there is only life between the two, which is the most fragile thing in the world.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Fuller believed human societies would soon rely mainly on renewable sources of energy, such as solar- and wind-derived electricity,. envisioned an age… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
One-half of life is admitted by us to be passed in sleep, in which, however, it may appear otherwise, we have no… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“When I consider the brief span of my life absorbed into the eternity which precedes and will succeed it— memoria hospitis unius… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“I ask you neither for health nor for sickness, for life nor for death; but that you may dispose of my health… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if we found it too slow in… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to live an… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“If the foot had never realized it belonged to the body, & that there never was a body on which it depended,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves; we desire to live an imaginary life in the minds… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“They prefer death to peace, others prefer death to war. Any opinion can be preferred to life, which it seems so natural… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
“There is no denying it; one must admit that there is something astonishing about Christianity. 'It is because you were born in it,' they… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
