The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“All human troubles derive from our inability to sit still and alone in a room.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them. The saints… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Fuller believed human societies would soon rely mainly on renewable sources of energy, such as solar- and wind-derived electricity,. envisioned an age… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. — 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
