Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from… — 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
I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Knowledge has two extremes. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview.… — 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 are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in… — 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
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