Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small. — Blaise Pascal Men Copy Share Image
Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will. — Blaise Pascal Clarity Copy Share Image
The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first. — Blaise Pascal Book Copy Share Image
“Please forgive the long letter; I didn’t have time to write a short one.” — Blaise Pascal Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.” — Blaise Pascal Fear Copy Share Image
“Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.” — Blaise Pascal Know 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 Lost Copy Share Image
God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind. — Blaise Pascal Clear Copy Share Image
That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it. — Blaise Pascal Evident Copy Share Image
The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts. — Blaise Pascal Brain Copy Share Image
“Eloquence.— We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true.” — Blaise Pascal Eloquence Copy Share Image
All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms. — Blaise Pascal Each day Copy Share Image
To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.] — Blaise Pascal Philosophical 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 Age Copy Share Image
What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy!… — Blaise Pascal Chaos 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 Doubt 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 Christ Copy Share Image
Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to… — Blaise Pascal Believe Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him,… — Blaise Pascal Heart Copy Share Image
“A true friend is so great an advantage, even for the greatest lords, in order that he may speak well of them,… — Blaise Pascal Friend Copy Share Image
Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race,… — Blaise Pascal Adam Copy Share Image
Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking… — Blaise Pascal Eternity Copy Share Image
There is a lot of difference between tempting and leading into error. God tempts but does not lead into error. To tempt… — Blaise Pascal Certain Copy Share Image
For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point… — Blaise Pascal Ends Copy Share Image
Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.… — Blaise Pascal Absolutes Copy Share Image
“For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point… — Blaise Pascal Infinity Copy Share Image
“Power rules the world, not opinion, but it is opinion that exploits power. It is power that makes opinion. To be easygoing… — Blaise Pascal Opinion Copy Share Image
“We are full of things which take us out of ourselves. Our instinct makes us feel that we must seek our happiness… — Blaise Pascal Happiness Copy Share Image
The will is one of the chief factors in belief, not that it creates belief, but because things are true or false… — Blaise Pascal Belief Copy Share Image