St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a… — 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
It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Quand on voit le style naturel, on est tout e tonne et ravi, car on s'attendait de voir un auteur, et on… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Let us now speak according to natural lights. If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible. . . . We are… — 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
When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom? — 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
When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was… — 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
