It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The infinite distance between the mind & the body is a symbol of the distance that is infinitely more, between the intellect… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Truth is not an object to be possessed; it is a living thing recognized, cultivated by the mind and heart.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“God wishes to move the will rather than the mind. Perfect clarity would help the mind and harm the will.” — Blaise Pascal 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 Copy Share Image
The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Il y a deux sortes d'esprits, l'un ge ome trique, et l'autre que l'on peut appeler de finesse. Le premier a des… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Just as I do not know where I came from, so I do not know where I am going. All I know… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it — 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
There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Mathematicians, who are only mathematicians, have exact minds, provided all things are explained to them by means of definitions and axioms; otherwise… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“ Two contrary reasons . We must begin with that, otherwise we cannot understand anything and everything is heretical. And even at… — 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
