To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse. — Blaise Pascal Belief Copy Share Image
Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Man's sensitivity to little things and insensitivity to the greatest things are marks of a strange disorder.” — Blaise Pascal Empathy Copy Share Image
Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril. — Blaise Pascal Bears Copy Share Image
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. — Blaise Pascal Charm Copy Share Image
Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from… — Blaise Pascal Escape Copy Share Image
“Words differently arranged have different meanings, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are… — Blaise Pascal Admiration Copy Share Image
Our true dignity consists — in thought. Thence we must derive our elevation, not from space or duration. Let us endeavor then… — Blaise Pascal Character Copy Share Image
“Make religion attractive, make good men wish it were true, and then show that it is. Worthy of reverence because it really… — Blaise Pascal Apologetics Copy Share Image
Il est non seulement impossible, mais inutile de conna|"tre Dieu sans Je sus-Christ. It is not only impossible, but also useless to… — Blaise Pascal Christ Copy Share Image
“As I write down my thought it sometimes escapes me, but that reminds me of my weakness, which I am always forgetting,… — Blaise Pascal Forgetting Copy Share Image
The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.] — Blaise Pascal Purity Copy Share Image
“Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not. — Blaise Pascal Blindness Copy Share Image
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it. — Blaise Pascal Abyss Copy Share Image
The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach… — Blaise Pascal Mind Copy Share Image
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. — Blaise Pascal Contradiction Copy Share Image
“Le silence eternel des ces espaces infinis m'effraie - The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.” — Blaise Pascal Silence Copy Share Image
God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness… — Blaise Pascal Charm Copy Share Image
The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune… — Blaise Pascal Connections Copy Share Image
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God. — Blaise Pascal Diversion Copy Share Image
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“To tell the truth is useful to those to whom it is spoken, but disadvantageous to those who tell it, because it… — Blaise Pascal Tell the truth Copy Share Image
Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only… — Blaise Pascal Defects Copy Share Image
Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about… — Blaise Pascal Despair Copy Share Image
“All human troubles derive from our inability to sit still and alone in a room.” — Blaise Pascal How to live Copy Share Image
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