Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom? — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere — 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
Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us. — 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
[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed. — 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
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
The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth.… — 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
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
The greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is nature, we… — 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
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
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
All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“We know the existence of the infinite without knowing its nature, because it too has extension but unlike us no limits. But… — 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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“For, after all, what is man in nature? ...a middle point between all and nothing...What else can he do, then, but perceive… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and… — 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
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
The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
What is man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, all in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only… — 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
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
We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all… — 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
“When we come across a natural style, we are surprised and delighted; for we expected an author, and we find a man.” — 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
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