We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. — Blaise Pascal Heart Copy Share Image
Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need. — Blaise Pascal Dependence Copy Share Image
Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Do you want it always to cost me the blood of my humanity while you do not even shed a tear?” — Blaise Pascal Humanity Copy Share Image
How I hate this folly of not believing in the Eucharist, etc.! If the gospel be true, if Jesus Christ be God,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just. — Blaise Pascal Advocate Copy Share Image
There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be. — Blaise Pascal Clever Copy Share Image
“There are only two kinds of men: righteous men who believe themselves sinners; the rest, sinners, who believe themselves righteous. Pascal, Pensées” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of… — Blaise Pascal Affliction Copy Share Image
“Knowlege of God without knowledge of man's wretchedness leads to pride. Knowledge of man's wretchedness without knowledge of God leads to despair.… — Blaise Pascal Christian Copy Share Image
Le nez de Cle opa" tre: s'il e u" t e te plus court, toute la face de la terre aurait change… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has… — Blaise Pascal Atheist Copy Share Image
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their… — Blaise Pascal Beautiful Copy Share Image
That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of… — Blaise Pascal Compassion Copy Share Image
When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“For it is beyond doubt that there is nothing which more shocks our reason than to say that the sin of the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The man who knows God but does not know his own misery, becomes proud. The man who knows his own misery but… — Blaise Pascal Approach Copy Share Image
All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have… — Blaise Pascal Defects Copy Share Image
Just as I do not know where I came from, so I do not know where I am going. All I know… — Blaise Pascal Angry Copy Share Image
You are in the same manner surrounded with a small circle of persons... full of desire. They demand of you the benefits… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a… — Blaise Pascal Causality Copy Share Image
“What then is to become of man? Will he be the equal of god or the beasts? What a terrifying distance! What… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself. — Blaise Pascal Grief Copy Share Image
There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other. — Blaise Pascal Heresy Copy Share Image
“Little things comfort us because little things distress us.” — Blaise Pascal Distress Copy Share Image
“The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first.” — Blaise Pascal Book Copy Share Image
