Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves… — 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
