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
“The last act is bloody, however fine the rest of the play. They throw earth over your head and it is finished… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only… — 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
Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything. — 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
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
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.” — 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
“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
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
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
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. — 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
It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth. — 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
There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is,… — 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
We are troubled only by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves. — 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
“All things can be deadly to us, even the things made to serve us; as in nature walls can kill us, and… — 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
“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
