All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions… This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Truth is not an object to be possessed; it is a living thing recognized, cultivated by the mind and heart.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist. — Blaise Pascal God Copy Share Image
The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world. — Blaise Pascal Beauty Copy Share Image
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. — Blaise Pascal Contradiction Copy Share Image
The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only… — Blaise Pascal Defects Copy Share Image
L'homme n'est qu'un sujet plein d'erreur, naturelle et ineffa c° able sans la gra" ce. Man is nothing but a subject full… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“[77] Pride. Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it; in other… — Blaise Pascal Curiosity Copy Share Image
God is, or He is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a… — Blaise Pascal Existence Copy Share Image
“In every action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others whom it affects,… — Blaise Pascal Actions Copy Share Image
I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think… — Blaise Pascal Dignity Copy Share Image
Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world. — Blaise Pascal Physics Copy Share Image
Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss. — Blaise Pascal Apology Copy Share Image
Quelque e tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt… — Blaise Pascal Christian Copy Share Image
If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as… — Blaise Pascal Doubt Copy Share Image
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world. — Blaise Pascal Beauty Copy Share Image
What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire. — Blaise Pascal Admiration Copy Share Image
Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. — Blaise Pascal Character Copy Share Image
The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare; it is the pleasure even of kings.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“We run carelessly over the precipice after having put something in front of us to prevent us seeing it.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Je ne crois que les histoires dont les te moins se feraient e gorger. I only believe in histories told by witnesses… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
L'on a beau se cacher a' soi-me" me, l'on aime toujours. We vainly conceal from ourselves the fact that we are always… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience. — Blaise Pascal Conscience Copy Share Image
There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be… — Blaise Pascal Being real Copy Share Image
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright. — Blaise Pascal Duty Copy Share Image
“As men who naturally understand their own condition avoid nothing so much as rest, so there is nothing they leave undone in… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“They prefer death to peace, others prefer death to war. Any opinion can be preferred to life, which it seems so natural… — Blaise Pascal Death Copy Share Image
Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master. When we disobey the latter we are punished, when we disobey the former… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
![“[77] Pride. Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it; in other words, we would never travel by sea if it meant never talking about it, and for the sheer pleasure of seeing things we could never hope to describe to others.” quote by Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/665/blaise-pascal-167_curiosity_77-pride-curiosity-is-only-vanity-we-usu_158938.jpg)
