Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God? — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy — 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
It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man's greatness is great in that he knows himself wretched. A tree does not know itself wretched. It is then being wretched… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
L'homme n'est ni ange ni be" te, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la be" te. Man is… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort.… — 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
Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule… — 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
It is dangerous to explain too clearly to man how like he is to the animals without pointing out his greatness. It… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
To speak freely of mathematics, I find it the highest exercise of the spirit; but at the same time I know that… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is so great that his greatness appears even in the consciousness of his misery. A tree does not know itself to… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All men are almost led to believe not of proof, but by attraction. This way is base, ignoble, and irrelevant; every one… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
[Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke that he… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality. — 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
![“[Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of Holy Scripture, and have questioned some cleric about the truths of the faith. After that, they boast that they have searched in books and among men in vain.” quote by Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b99/blaise-pascal-167_boast_unbelievers-think-they-have-made-great-e_1830192.jpg)
