En un mot, l'homme conna|"t qu'il est mise rable: il est donc mise rable, puisqu'il l'est; mais il est bien grand, puisqu'il… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks… — 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 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
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
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
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art… — 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
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
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
Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think… — 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
The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room. — 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
