Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All men naturally hate one another. I hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
En un mot, l'homme conna|"t qu'il est mise rable: il est donc mise rable, puisqu'il l'est; mais il est bien grand, puisqu'il… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There is a lot of difference between tempting and leading into error. God tempts but does not lead into error. To tempt… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy!… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Let man then contemplate nature in full and lofty majesty, and turn his eyes away from the mean objects which surround him.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness. — 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
