“The last act is bloody, however fine the rest of the play. They throw earth over your head and it is finished… — Blaise Pascal Actor Copy Share Image
Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies. — Blaise Pascal Battle Copy Share Image
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. — Blaise Pascal Change Copy Share Image
Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is the heart which experiences God, and not the reason. This, then, is faith: God felt by the heart, not by… — Blaise Pascal Faith Copy Share Image
How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals. — Blaise Pascal Admiration Copy Share Image
“People often mistake their imagination for their heart, & so often are convinced they are converted as soon as they start thinking… — Blaise Pascal Conversion Copy Share Image
It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Quand on voit le style naturel, on est tout e tonne et ravi, car on s'attendait de voir un auteur, et on… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of… — Blaise Pascal Children Copy Share Image
The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery without that of God causes despair.… — Blaise Pascal Knowledge Copy Share Image
We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that… — Blaise Pascal Cold Copy Share Image
Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the… — Blaise Pascal Chains Copy Share Image
Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of… — Blaise Pascal Birth Copy Share Image
The Christian's God does not merely consist of a God who is the Author of mathematical truths and the order of the… — Blaise Pascal Books Copy Share Image
“Our imagination so magnifies the present, because we are continually thinking about it, and so reduces eternity, because we do not think… — Blaise Pascal Eternity Copy Share Image
“Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.” — Blaise Pascal Art Copy Share Image
Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one. — Blaise Pascal Inspirational Copy Share Image
Truth is so obscured nowadays and lies so well established that unless we love the truth we shall never recognize it. — Blaise Pascal Lies Copy Share Image
Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“He no longer loves the person whom he loved ten years ago. I quite believe it. She is no longer the same,… — Blaise Pascal Belief Copy Share Image
We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And… — Blaise Pascal Ambition Copy Share Image
There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is… — Blaise Pascal Amusement Copy Share Image
“Man's greatness comes from knowing that he is wretched: a tree does not know it is wretched. Thus it is wretched to… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Nature does nothing to avoid the vacuum; rather the weight of the air masses is the true reason for all these phenomena… — Blaise Pascal Nature Copy Share Image
“When you say that Christ did not die for all men, you are abusing a weakness of men, who at once apply… — Blaise Pascal Hope Copy Share Image
We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves; we desire to live an imaginary life in the minds… — Blaise Pascal Christian Copy Share Image
The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and… — Blaise Pascal Class Copy Share Image
We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all… — Blaise Pascal Change Copy Share Image
The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We… — Blaise Pascal Absurd Copy Share Image
You gave me health that I might serve you; and so often I failed to use my good health in your service.… — Blaise Pascal Body Copy Share Image
...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“God alone is man's true good, and since man abandoned him it is a strange fact that nothing in nature has been… — Blaise Pascal Good man Copy Share Image
Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the… — Blaise Pascal Abundance Copy Share Image
Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are… — Blaise Pascal Book 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