I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness. — Blaise Pascal Happiness Copy Share Image
Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree. — Blaise Pascal Atheism Copy Share Image
Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable. — Blaise Pascal Inspirational Copy Share Image
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. — Blaise Pascal Able Copy Share Image
“Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. — Blaise Pascal Blunt Copy Share Image
We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is. — Blaise Pascal Christian Copy Share Image
When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think… — Blaise Pascal Evil Copy Share Image
There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds… — Blaise Pascal Audience Copy Share Image
The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family. — Blaise Pascal Best family Copy Share Image
When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do. — Blaise Pascal Complaining Copy Share Image
“Miracles enable us to judge doctrine, and doctrine enables us to judge miracles.” — Blaise Pascal Doctrine Copy Share Image
Instead of complaining that God had hidden Himself, you will give Him thanks for not having revealed so much of Himself; and… — Blaise Pascal Christian Copy Share Image
The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine… — Blaise Pascal Divine Copy Share Image
When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who… — Blaise Pascal Acting Copy Share Image
“We know the existence of the infinite without knowing its nature, because it too has extension but unlike us no limits. But… — Blaise Pascal Life 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 Comprehending Copy Share Image
We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one… — Blaise Pascal Certain 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 Beauty Copy Share Image
If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose… — Blaise Pascal After death Copy Share Image
“Justice, might.—It is right that what is just should be obeyed; it is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed. Justice… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if we found it too slow in… — Blaise Pascal Future 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 Accommodate 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 Amazed Copy Share Image
“The only thing that consoles us for our miseries is diversion. And yet it is the greatest of our miseries. For it… — Blaise Pascal Boredom Copy Share Image
As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do… — Blaise Pascal Beauty 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 Belief 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… — Blaise Pascal Contrary Copy Share Image