Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly equality of goods is just; but, being unable to cause might to obey justice, men has made it just to obey… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Unless we know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, concupiscence, weakness, wretchedness and unrighteousness, we are truly blind. And if someone… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to tell the people that the laws are unjust; for they obey them only because they think them just.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“In a word, the Self has two qualities: it is unjust in itself since it makes itself the centre of everything; it… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“[T]he sovereignty of reason and justice is no more tyrannical than that of desire. They are principles natural to man.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength. — 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