Let us now speak according to natural lights. If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible. . . . We are… — 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
“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
Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death. — 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
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
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
That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of… — 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
Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“God alone is man's true good, and since man abandoned him it is a strange fact that nothing in nature has been… — 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
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
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
“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