It is much better to know something about everything than to know everything about one thing. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Knowlege of God without knowledge of man's wretchedness leads to pride. Knowledge of man's wretchedness without knowledge of God leads to despair.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.” — 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
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
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
Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Let us then realize our limitations. We are something and we are not everything. Such being as we have conceals from us… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Truth is not an object to be possessed; it is a living thing recognized, cultivated by the mind and heart.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery without that of God causes despair.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off. — 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
What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher.… — 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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