Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood. — 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
Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism. — 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
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. — 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
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of… — 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
We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to… — 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
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
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
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that… — 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
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
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 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
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
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
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 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
What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy — 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
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
Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
To deny, to believe, and to doubt well are to a man as the race is to a horse. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
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
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
“There is no denying it; one must admit that there is something astonishing about Christianity. 'It is because you were born in it,' they… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
