Everything that is incomprehensible does not, however, cease to exist. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“all of man's problems come from the inability to sit quietly in a room.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is much better to know something about everything than to know everything about one thing. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. — Blaise Pascal Creativity Copy Share Image
“We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us seeing it.” — Blaise Pascal Abyss 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 Beauty Copy Share Image
“Man is neither angel nor brute, and the unfortunate thing is that he who would act the angel acts the brute.” — Blaise Pascal Angel Copy Share Image
How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy — Blaise Pascal Chimera Copy Share Image
Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind… — Blaise Pascal Beautiful Copy Share Image
Mathematicians, who are only mathematicians, have exact minds, provided all things are explained to them by means of definitions and axioms; otherwise… — Blaise Pascal Mathematicians Copy Share Image
“At the far end of this infinite distance a coin is being spun which will come down heads or tails. How will… — Blaise Pascal Heads or tails Copy Share Image
Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them. The saints… — Blaise Pascal Charity Copy Share Image
Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as,… — 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
We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which… — Blaise Pascal Fear 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 Affliction Copy Share Image
“I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the… — Blaise Pascal Ancient greece Copy Share Image
“What is the self? A man goes to the window to see the people passing by; if I pass by, can I… — Blaise Pascal Beauty Copy Share Image
Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes… — Blaise Pascal Admiration 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
Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to… — Blaise Pascal Amusement Copy Share Image
In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.” — Blaise Pascal Art Copy Share Image
Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them. — Blaise Pascal Dignity Copy Share Image
