Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be… — Blaise Pascal Doubt Copy Share Image
All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Nothing strengthens the case for scepticism more than the fact that there are people who are not sceptics. If they all were,… — Blaise Pascal Doubt Copy Share Image
The prophecies are to be unintelligible to the ungodly but intelligible to those who are properly instructed. — Blaise Pascal End of the world Copy Share Image
The Christian's God does not consist merely of a God who is the author of mathematical truths and the order of elements...… — Blaise Pascal Books Copy Share Image
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without… — Blaise Pascal Christianity Copy Share Image
A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday… — Blaise Pascal Achievement Copy Share Image
I can readily conceive of a man without hands or feet; and I could conceive of him without a head, if experience… — Blaise Pascal Essence Copy Share Image
We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary… — Blaise Pascal Desire Copy Share Image
From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is… — Blaise Pascal Body Copy Share Image
We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them.… — Blaise Pascal Eating Copy Share Image
Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. — Blaise Pascal Leisure Copy Share Image
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us. — Blaise Pascal God Copy Share Image
“When we come across a natural style, we are surprised and delighted; for we expected an author, and we find a man.” — Blaise Pascal Books Copy Share Image
Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world. — Blaise Pascal Heaven Copy Share Image
We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant. — Blaise Pascal Authority Copy Share Image
Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny. — Blaise Pascal Confusion Copy Share Image
Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room. — Blaise Pascal Happiness Copy Share Image
Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives — Blaise Pascal Christianity Copy Share Image
All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable. — Blaise Pascal Anxiety Copy Share Image
It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed. — Blaise Pascal Inspirational Copy Share Image
All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“I set it down as a fact that if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be… — Blaise Pascal Four friends Copy Share Image
Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true. — Blaise Pascal Eloquence Copy Share Image
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the… — Blaise Pascal Heart Copy Share Image
Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death. — Blaise Pascal Absolutes Copy Share Image
Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference... — Blaise Pascal Differences Copy Share Image
The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Alergăm fără încetare spre prăpastie după ce am aşezat ceva în faţa noastră pentru a ne împiedica să o vedem.” — Blaise Pascal Amor Copy Share Image
