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
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
...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
No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all… — 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
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
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
What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy!… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There is a lot of difference between tempting and leading into error. God tempts but does not lead into error. To tempt… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
[Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some… — 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
Man is so great that his greatness appears even in the consciousness of his misery. A tree does not know itself to… — 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
I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such… — 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
L'homme n'est qu'un sujet plein d'erreur, naturelle et ineffa c° able sans la gra" ce. Man is nothing but a subject full… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more… — 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
It is dangerous to explain too clearly to man how like he is to the animals without pointing out his greatness. It… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines… — 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
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
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
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
One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the… — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
![“[Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of Holy Scripture, and have questioned some cleric about the truths of the faith. After that, they boast that they have searched in books and among men in vain.” quote by Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b99/blaise-pascal-167_boast_unbelievers-think-they-have-made-great-e_1830192.jpg)
