“It is natural for the mind to believe, and for the will to love; [47] so that, for want of true objects,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are three means of believing--by inspiration, by reason, and by custom. Christianity, which is the only rational institution, does yet admit… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Jesus Christ and St Paul possess the order of charity, not of the mind, for they wished to humble, not to teach.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves; we desire to live an imaginary life in the minds… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit.… — 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
Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“If our state were really happy, we should not need to take our minds off it in order to make ourselves happy.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are two types of minds, the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Knowledge has two extremes. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The infinite distance between body and mind symbolizes the infinitely more infinite distance between mind and charity, for charity is supernatural. ...Out… — 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
God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness… — 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
