“Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more… — 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
Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare; it is the pleasure even of kings.” — 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
Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Curiosity is only in vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness. — 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
It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only… — 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
