“There is nothing so consistent with reason as this denial of reason.” — Blaise Pascal Denial Copy Share Image
All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room. — Blaise Pascal Blessing Copy Share Image
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom? — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality. — Blaise Pascal Causality Copy Share Image
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind… — Blaise Pascal Blind Copy Share Image
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not… — Blaise Pascal Faith Copy Share Image
“What astonishes us most is to observe that everyone is not astonished at his own weakness.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
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 Image
E? loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like… — Blaise Pascal Eloquence Copy Share Image
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Allure Copy Share Image
“Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable… — Blaise Pascal Hope Copy Share Image
The greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is nature, we… — Blaise Pascal Animal 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 Boast Copy Share Image
I would inquire of reasonable persons whether this principle: Matter is naturally wholly incapable of thought, and this other: I think, therefore… — Blaise Pascal Augustine Copy Share Image
St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects,… — Blaise Pascal Action Copy Share Image
La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence,… — Blaise Pascal Character Copy Share Image
“ Two contrary reasons . We must begin with that, otherwise we cannot understand anything and everything is heretical. And even at… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The only good thing for men therefore is to be diverted from thinking of what they are, either by some occupation which… — Blaise Pascal Diversion Copy Share Image
“Nobody is publicly accepted as an expert on poetry unless he displays the sign of poet, mathematician, etc., but universal men want… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Vanity is so firmly anchored in man's heart that a soldier, a camp follower, a cook or a porter will boast and… — Blaise Pascal Vanity Copy Share Image
“There are two ways of persuading men of the truths of our religion; one by the power of reason, the other by… — Blaise Pascal Bible 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 Altruism Copy Share Image
When we would show any one that he is mistaken, our best course is to observe on what side he considers the… — Blaise Pascal Acknowledgment 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 Past Copy Share Image
When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines… — Blaise Pascal Change Copy Share Image
“We desire truth and find within ourselves only uncertainty.” — Blaise Pascal Desire Copy Share Image
“There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.” — Blaise Pascal Belief Copy Share Image
There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs. — Blaise Pascal Darkness Copy Share Image
Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment. — Blaise Pascal Gratitude Copy Share Image
The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first. — Blaise Pascal Book Copy Share Image
