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… — 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… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The Christian religion alone has been able to cure these twin vices, not by using one to expel the other according to… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Muhammad 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
Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Sleep, you say, is the image of death; for my part I say that it is rather the image of life. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be… — Blaise Pascal 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
Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God? — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“So I hold out my arms to my Redeemer, who, having been foretold for four thousand years, has come to suffer and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“and the same man who spends so many days and nights in fury and despair at losing some office or at some… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us, and which touches us so profoundly,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Let us imagine a number of men in chains, and all condemned to death, where some are slaughtered each day in the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“All things can be deadly to us, even the things made to serve us; as in nature walls can kill us, and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“They prefer death to peace, others prefer death to war. Any opinion can be preferred to life, which it seems so natural… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. — 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