It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Evil is never done so thoroughly or so well as when it is done with a good conscience.” — Blaise Pascal Conscience Copy Share Image
Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off. — Blaise Pascal Curiosity Copy Share Image
Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent. — Blaise Pascal Persecution Copy Share Image
Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think… — Blaise Pascal Evil Copy Share Image
We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is. — Blaise Pascal Christian Copy Share Image
“Know then, proud man, what a paradox you are to yourself. Be humble, impotent reason! Be silent, feeble nature! Learn that man… — Blaise Pascal Paradox Copy Share Image
“What sort of freak then is man! How novel, how monstrous, how chaotic, how paradoxical, how prodigious! Judge of all things, feeble… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause… — Blaise Pascal Believer Copy Share Image
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much… — Blaise Pascal Habit Copy Share Image
All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves… — Blaise Pascal Blessing Copy Share Image
The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I take it as a matter not to be disputed, that if all knew what each said of the other, there would… — Blaise Pascal Disclosure Copy Share Image
One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all… — Blaise Pascal Consequence Copy Share Image
There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds… — Blaise Pascal Audience Copy Share Image
“Miracles enable us to judge doctrine, and doctrine enables us to judge miracles.” — Blaise Pascal Doctrine Copy Share Image
“Jesus is a God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.” — Blaise Pascal God Copy Share Image
If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family. — Blaise Pascal Best family Copy Share Image
When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Man is neither angel nor beast, and unhappily whoever wants to act the angel, acts the beast.” — Blaise Pascal Beast Copy Share Image
Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The only religion which is against nature, against common sense and against our pleasures is the only one which has always existed.” — Blaise Pascal Common sense Copy Share Image
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the… — Blaise Pascal Mind Copy Share Image
One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape. — Blaise Pascal Death Copy Share Image
No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy… — Blaise Pascal Abraham Copy Share Image
Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as… — Blaise Pascal Dignity Copy Share Image
All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“All their principles are true, sceptics, stoics, atheists, etc...but their conclusions are false, because the contrary principles are also true.” — Blaise Pascal Stoicism Copy Share Image
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
