Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them… — 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
Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
You gave me health that I might serve you; and so often I failed to use my good health in your service.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The incredulous are the more credulous. They believe the miracles of Vespasian that they may not believe those of Moses. [Fr., Incredules… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
One-half of life is admitted by us to be passed in sleep, in which, however, it may appear otherwise, we have no… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon… — 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
