All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All men naturally hate one another. I hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference... — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
L'on a beau se cacher a' soi-me" me, l'on aime toujours. We vainly conceal from ourselves the fact that we are always… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I would inquire of reasonable persons whether this principle: Matter is naturally wholly incapable of thought, and this other: I think, therefore… — 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
