He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others. — Blaise Pascal Creativity Copy Share Image
Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless. — Blaise Pascal Books Copy Share Image
“ Two infinites. Mean. When we read too quickly or too slowly we do not understand anything.” — 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 true religion would have to teach greatness and wretchedness, inspire self-esteem and self-contempt, love and hate.” — Blaise Pascal Love Copy Share Image
If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy. — Blaise Pascal Diversion Copy Share Image
Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones. — 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
All men naturally hate one another. I hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other,… — Blaise Pascal Facts Copy Share Image
Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us. — Blaise Pascal Beauty Copy Share Image
A few rules include all that is necessary for the perfection of the definitions, the axioms, and the demonstrations, and consequently of… — Blaise Pascal Art Copy Share Image
Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them… — Blaise Pascal Fool Copy Share Image
Instead of complaining that God had hidden Himself, you will give Him thanks for not having revealed so much of Himself; and… — Blaise Pascal Christian Copy Share Image
The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine… — Blaise Pascal Divine Copy Share Image
When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who… — Blaise Pascal Acting Copy Share Image
“We know the existence of the infinite without knowing its nature, because it too has extension but unlike us no limits. But… — Blaise Pascal Existence Copy Share Image
Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If a man loves a woman for her beauty, does he love her? No; for the smallpox, which destroys her beauty without… — Blaise Pascal Beauty Copy Share Image
There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there… — Blaise Pascal Achievement Copy Share Image
“We naturally believe we are more capable of reaching the centre of things than of embracing their circumference, and the visible extent… — Blaise Pascal Infinity Copy Share Image
We know then the existence and nature of the finite, because we also are finite and have extension. We know the existence… — Blaise Pascal Existence Copy Share Image
When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left… — Blaise Pascal Atheism Copy Share Image
There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God. — Blaise Pascal Bravado Copy Share Image
“All that is made perfect by progress perishes also by progress.” — Blaise Pascal Growth Copy Share Image
“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.” — Blaise Pascal Miseries Copy Share Image
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