It is certain that those who have the living faith in their hearts see at once that all existence is none other… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one… — Blaise Pascal 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 Copy Share Image
There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.) — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the… — Blaise Pascal 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
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
“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
All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives — Blaise Pascal 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 is the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
