There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at Court or… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps;… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at court or… — 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
