Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We are troubled only by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves. — 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
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Since [man's] true nature has been lost, anything can become his nature: similarly, true good being lost, anything can become his true… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature... and the thing which… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
True nature being lost, everything becomes its own nature; as the true good being lost, everything becomes its own true good. — 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
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
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
The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from… — 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
Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Nature constantly begins the same things over again, years, days, hours, spaces too. And numbers run end to end, one after another.… — 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, 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
“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
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
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
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
We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Why should I choose to divide my ethics into four rather than six? Why should I define virtue as four, or two,… — 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
“Thus I stretch out my arms to my Saviour, who, after being foretold for four thousand years, came on earth to die… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and lofty majesty, let him turn his gaze away from the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The world is a good judge of things, for it is in natural ignorance, which is man's true state. The sciences have… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education. — 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