I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
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
Everything that is incomprehensible does not, however, cease to exist. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We know then the existence and nature of the finite, because we also are finite and have extension. We know the existence… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us… — 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
No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking… — 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
