Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it… — 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
Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest… — 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
“Once that is clearly understood, I think that each of us can stay quietly in the state in which nature has placed… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“For, not seeing the whole truth, they could not attain to perfect virtue. Some considering nature as incorrupt, others as incurable, they… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Nature does nothing to avoid the vacuum; rather the weight of the air masses is the true reason for all these phenomena… — 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
The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We know then the existence and nature of the finite, because we also are finite and have extension. We know the existence… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“So I hold out my arms to my Redeemer, who, having been foretold for four thousand years, has come to suffer and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The only religion which is against nature, against common sense and against our pleasures is the only one which has always existed.” — 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
Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible. — 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
We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which… — 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
