Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves. — Blaise Pascal Happiness Copy Share Image
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher. — Blaise Pascal Philosopher 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
To deny, to believe, and to doubt well are to a man as the race is to a horse. — Blaise Pascal Belief Copy Share Image
The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires. — Blaise Pascal Giving Copy Share Image
Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. — Blaise Pascal Achievement Copy Share Image
That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides… — Blaise Pascal Love Copy Share Image
There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition — Blaise Pascal Desire Copy Share Image
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are… — Blaise Pascal Change Copy Share Image
Truth is so obscured nowadays and lies so well established that unless we love the truth we may never recoganize it — Blaise Pascal Dishonesty Copy Share Image
True nature being lost, everything becomes its own nature; as the true good being lost, everything becomes its own true good. — Blaise Pascal Nature Copy Share Image
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it with religious conviction.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power. — Blaise Pascal Charm Copy Share Image
Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long… This one would… — Blaise Pascal Father 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 Boredom Copy Share Image
When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views… — Blaise Pascal Advantage Copy Share Image
Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“It is not in space that I must seek my human dignity, but in the ordering of my thought. It will do… — Blaise Pascal Human dignity Copy Share Image
We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“I see the terrifying spaces of the universe that enclose me, and I find myself attached to a corner of this vast… — Blaise Pascal Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Once that is clearly understood, I think that each of us can stay quietly in the state in which nature has placed… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The world is a good judge of things, for it is in natural ignorance, which is man's true state. The sciences have… — Blaise Pascal Ignorance Copy Share Image
It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at… — Blaise Pascal Beast Copy Share Image
Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“There is no denying it; one must admit that there is something astonishing about Christianity. 'It is because you were born in… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We do not rest satisfied with the present… So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours… — Blaise Pascal Dream Copy Share Image
“For, after all, what is man in nature? ...a middle point between all and nothing...What else can he do, then, but perceive… — Blaise Pascal Infinity Copy Share Image
“What reason for vanity in being plunged into impenetrable darkness?” — Blaise Pascal Darkness Copy Share Image
It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him. — Blaise Pascal Literature Copy Share Image
Dans une grande a" me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat. — Blaise Pascal Funny Copy Share Image
Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything. — Blaise Pascal Education Copy Share Image
