“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
“[77] Pride. Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it; in other… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The man who knows God but does not know his own misery, becomes proud. The man who knows his own misery but… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Pride counterbalances all these miseries; man either hides or displays them, and glories in his awareness of them.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism. — Blaise Pascal 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 Copy Share Image
Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Without the knowledge of our wretchedness, the knowledge of God creates pride. With it, the knowledge of God creates despair. The knowledge… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Jesus Christ is the god whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.” — 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
