All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate… — 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
The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest… — 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
All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber. — 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
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself. — 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
What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Quelque e tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only… — 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
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism. — 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
If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is… — 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
