Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is so great that his greatness appears even in the consciousness of his misery. A tree does not know itself to… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The man who knows God but does not know his own misery, becomes proud. The man who knows his own misery but… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Generally we are occupied either with the miseries which now we feel, or with those which threaten; and even when we see… — 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
