Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason. — Blaise Pascal Intelligence Copy Share Image
All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go. — Blaise Pascal Desire Copy Share Image
The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface. — Blaise Pascal Beneath the surface Copy Share Image
E? loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like… — Blaise Pascal Eloquence Copy Share Image
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Allure Copy Share Image
“Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable… — Blaise Pascal Hope Copy Share Image
That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides… — Blaise Pascal Love Copy Share Image
There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition — Blaise Pascal Desire Copy Share Image
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not… — Blaise Pascal Faith Copy Share Image
“What astonishes us most is to observe that everyone is not astonished at his own weakness.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man's greatness is great in that he knows himself wretched. A tree does not know itself wretched. It is then being wretched… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this… — Blaise Pascal Age Copy Share Image
L'homme n'est ni ange ni be" te, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la be" te. Man is… — Blaise Pascal Angel Copy Share Image
To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how… — Blaise Pascal Bounds Copy Share Image
Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They… — Blaise Pascal Anxiety Copy Share Image
We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The incredulous are the more credulous. They believe the miracles of Vespasian that they may not believe those of Moses. [Fr., Incredules… — Blaise Pascal Belief Copy Share Image
Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.… — Blaise Pascal Absolutes Copy Share Image
The will is one of the chief factors in belief, not that it creates belief, but because things are true or false… — Blaise Pascal Belief Copy Share Image
“We are full of things which take us out of ourselves. Our instinct makes us feel that we must seek our happiness… — Blaise Pascal Happiness Copy Share Image
There is a lot of difference between tempting and leading into error. God tempts but does not lead into error. To tempt… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking… — Blaise Pascal Eternity Copy Share Image
“And if one loves me for my judgement, memory, he does not love me , for I can lose these qualities without… — Blaise Pascal Losing myself Copy Share Image
For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image