“The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first.” — Blaise Pascal Book Copy Share Image
The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface. — Blaise Pascal Beneath the surface Copy Share Image
Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go. — Blaise Pascal Desire Copy Share Image
The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts. — Blaise Pascal Brain Copy Share Image
We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which… — Blaise Pascal Advice Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous. — Blaise Pascal Men Copy Share Image
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. — Blaise Pascal Future Copy Share Image
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. — Blaise Pascal 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
To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.] — Blaise Pascal Philosophical Copy Share Image
Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps;… — Blaise Pascal Art Copy Share Image
“One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“There is nothing we can now call our own, for what we call so is the effect of art; crimes are made… — Blaise Pascal Art Copy Share Image
Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the… — Blaise Pascal Body Copy Share Image
The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would… — Blaise Pascal Action 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
The God of Christians is a God of love and comfort, a God who fills the soul and heart of those whom… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from… — Blaise Pascal Bored Copy Share Image
Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us… — Blaise Pascal Birth Copy Share Image
On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at court or… — Blaise Pascal Action Copy Share Image
“It is absurd of us to rely on the company of our fellows, as wretched and helpless as we are; they will… — Blaise Pascal Business Copy Share Image
We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence… — Blaise Pascal Absence Copy Share Image
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which… — Blaise Pascal Age Copy Share Image