Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education. — 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
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom? — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. — 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
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
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
“There is no denying it; one must admit that there is something astonishing about Christianity. 'It is because you were born in it,' they… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
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