It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants. — Blaise Pascal Avarice Copy Share Image
All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Console-toi, tu ne me chercherais pas si tu ne m'avais trouve . Comfort yourself.You would not seek me if you had not… — Blaise Pascal Comfort Copy Share Image
“[T]he sovereignty of reason and justice is no more tyrannical than that of desire. They are principles natural to man.” — Blaise Pascal Justice Copy Share Image
To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not… — Blaise Pascal Doubt Copy Share Image
Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the… — Blaise Pascal Confusion Copy Share Image
All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch. — Blaise Pascal Greatness Copy Share Image
What amazes me the most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be… — Blaise Pascal Bears Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him,… — Blaise Pascal Heart Copy Share Image
En un mot, l'homme conna|"t qu'il est mise rable: il est donc mise rable, puisqu'il l'est; mais il est bien grand, puisqu'il… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks… — Blaise Pascal Death Copy Share Image
[Christianity] endeavors equally to establish these two things: that God has set up in the Church visible signs to make himself known… — Blaise Pascal Christianity Copy Share Image
The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from… — Blaise Pascal Age Copy Share Image
This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature… — Blaise Pascal Doubt Copy Share Image
Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it… — Blaise Pascal Christ 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
Generally we are occupied either with the miseries which now we feel, or with those which threaten; and even when we see… — Blaise Pascal Affliction Copy Share Image
“I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the… — Blaise Pascal Ancient greece Copy Share Image
“What is the self? A man goes to the window to see the people passing by; if I pass by, can I… — Blaise Pascal Beauty Copy Share Image
Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes… — Blaise Pascal Admiration Copy Share Image
“We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to live an… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to… — Blaise Pascal Amusement Copy Share Image
Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength. — Blaise Pascal Justice Copy Share Image
Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists — Blaise Pascal Inspirational Copy Share Image
“Sceptic, mathematician, Christian; doubt, affirmation, submission.” — Blaise Pascal Sceptic Copy Share Image
Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image