Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of… — Blaise Pascal 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 Copy Share Image
When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without… — Blaise Pascal 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 Copy Share Image
Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects. — 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
