Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The infinite distance between the mind & the body is a symbol of the distance that is infinitely more, between the intellect… — Blaise Pascal Body Copy Share Image
Le silence e ternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only… — Blaise Pascal Christian inspirational Copy Share Image
Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee. — Blaise Pascal Christ Copy Share Image
However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our… — Blaise Pascal Divine Copy Share Image
The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing — Blaise Pascal Character Copy Share Image
We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose… — Blaise Pascal After death Copy Share Image
Between us, and Hell or Heaven, there is only life between the two, which is the most fragile thing in the world.… — Blaise Pascal Fragile Copy Share Image
True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which… — Blaise Pascal Eloquence Copy Share Image
Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them… — Blaise Pascal Eloquence Copy Share Image
The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest… — Blaise Pascal Ambiguity Copy Share Image
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. — Blaise Pascal Awe Copy Share Image
Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. — Blaise Pascal Conviction Copy Share Image
For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible. — Blaise Pascal Grace Copy Share Image
How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies. — Blaise Pascal Childhood Copy Share Image
The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four… — Blaise Pascal Betrayal Copy Share Image
“All of human unhappiness comes from one single thing: not knowing how to remain at rest in a room.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Happiness is neither within us only, or without us; it is the union of ourselves with God — Blaise Pascal God Copy Share Image
“What must I do? I see nothing but obscurities on every side.' 'Shall I believe I am nothing? Shall I believe I… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave — Blaise Pascal Allure Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays,… — Blaise Pascal Allies Copy Share Image
“Pride counterbalances all these miseries; man either hides or displays them, and glories in his awareness of them.” — Blaise Pascal Pride Copy Share Image
“Christianity is strange: it requires human beings to recognize that they are vile and even abominable.” — Blaise Pascal Abominable Copy Share Image
I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head… But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would bea stone or… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed. — Blaise Pascal Beauty Copy Share Image
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. — Blaise Pascal Being Copy Share Image
When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without… — Blaise Pascal Artistic Copy Share Image