La dernie' re chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage, est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la premie' re. The last… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize… — 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
The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it. — 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
