How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all. — 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
The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the… — 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
There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If we dreamed the same thing every night, it would affect us much as the objects we see every day. And if… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
What is it, in your opinion, to be a great nobleman? It is to be master of several objects that men covet,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Let man then contemplate nature in full and lofty majesty, and turn his eyes away from the mean objects which surround him.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate… — 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
