The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions… This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is nature, we… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
You are in the same manner surrounded with a small circle of persons... full of desire. They demand of you the benefits… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Sneezing absorbs all the functions of the soul just as much as the [sexual] act, but we do not draw from it… — 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
If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be… — 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
All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The man who knows God but does not know his own misery, becomes proud. The man who knows his own misery but… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad… — 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
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
Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If a man loves a woman for her beauty, does he love her? No; for the smallpox, which destroys her beauty without… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Let man then contemplate nature in full and lofty majesty, and turn his eyes away from the mean objects which surround him.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by… — 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
Undoubtedly equality of goods is just; but, being unable to cause might to obey justice, men has made it just to obey… — 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
Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what… — 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
Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then 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
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